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Class OF 1877, 



DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, 



1877-1887, 



HANOVER, N. H. 

PRINTED AT THE DARTMOUTH PRESS, 
1887. 



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Dear Classmates : — 

After much delay, unavoidable so far as we are concerned, 
we present you this Decennial Record of the class. The plan 
upon which it is constructed has been already sufficiently out- 
lined in our preliminary circular. In the case of the non-grad- 
uate members of the class, it covers more than ten years of time, 
as it seemed best to begin the record of these brethren with the 
date of their leaving the class. 

In so far as the record herein given is imperfect, we submit 
that the blame, unless it be for lack of perseverance, should not 
fall upon us. The office of class secretary, never a sinecure, be- 
comes more and more burdensome as the years go by. Not only 
does the amount of our own leisure time diminish, but the sad 
fact has become very apparent that the interest of our class- 
mates in each other is growing less year by year, and it is yearly 
becoming more difficult to gather material for a report of this 
kind. 

In the hope, however, that the following pages may serve to 
renew the pleasant memories of college days and to strengthen 
our regard for each other and to keep the memory green of 
those who have gone before, we have gladly contributed what- 
ever labor was necessary in the preparation of this Record. 

Cordially yours, 

John M. Comstock, 

August 15, 1887. C. M. GODDARD. 



DECENNIAL RECORD 

OF 

DARTMOUTH '77. 



Charles Darwin Adams, 
Springfield, Mo. 

For the first two years after graduation he was principal of 
the People's Academy and Morrisville Graded School, at Mor- 
risville, Vt. Entered Andover Theological Seminary in the fall 
of 1879, and remained there two years, leaving at the close of 
the middle year. From 1881 to 1884 was instructor in Greek 
and physics in Gushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass., resign- 
ing his position there to accept an election to the chair of Greek 
and Physics in Drury College, Springfield, Mo., his present loca- 
tion. Was ordained an evangelist at Springfield, July 2, 1885, 
and for some time supplied the pulpit of the Congregational 
church at Riverdale, Mo. Is now superintendent of the Con- 
gregational Sunday-School at Springfield. Was married, Aug. 
24, 188 1, to Julia Amanda, daughter of David Stevens of Wilton, 
N. H. They have no children. 



George Elwyn Atkinson, son of Thomas and Emily 
(Noyes) Atkinson, was born at Bolton, Mass., Sept. 8, 1852, 
His father, a farmer, had died before our college days. In 1867 
his parents removed to Hudson, Mass., which was subsequently 
his home. His preparation for college was obtained at the Hud- 
son High School, with one term at Wilbraham Wesleyan Acad- 
emy. He was thrown almost entirely on his own resources for 
his education, and was diligently engaged in manual labor when 
not with his class at Hanover. His health, for some time not 
strong, failed him during our senior year, and he was forced to 
leave unfilled the position of Class Day poet, to which he had 
been chosen by the class. The summer following graduation 



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he spent in the woods of Maine, and returned in the fall with 
health apparently restored. It was a time of unusual sickness 
at Hudson, and for some weeks he devoted himself too closely 
to the care of the sick. In the winter he obtained a position on 
a Boston newspaper, but was soon obliged to give it up. Under 
medical advice, he spent several months on a farm at South 
Hampton, Nova Scotia, returning home in the following winter, 
somewhat benefited in health. From March to September, 1879, 
he was engaged in various out-door work for Daniel Whitcher, a 
lumber manufacturer of Landaff, N. H., and from Nov. 1879 till 
Jan. 1880 taught at Landaff. On finishing his school he began 
the study of law with Hon. A. P. Carpenter, at Bath, N. H., but 
a severe cold which he had contracted while teaching rapidly 
developed into consumption, and he was forced to give up study 
in March. On the 20th of April he was taken to Littleton, N. 
H., where his attending physician resided, and remained there 
until his death. May 10, 1880. Carpenter and Robinson were 
with him at the end, with his mother and sister, and they, to- 
gether with Carrigan, Hammond, Saunderson, and Sewall, at- 
tended the funeral at Hudson. Diligent in labor, loyal and un- 
selfish in friendship, of undoubted mental ability, no one of the 
class could have been more sincerely or deeply mourned than 
Atkinson. ^ 

Gilbert Brownell Balch, 
79 Milk St., Boston, Mass. 
Studied law one 3^ear at the Boston University School of Law, 
and then, having made a change of plans, spent three years at 
Andover Theological Seminary, graduating there in 1881. Was 
ordained pastor of the Congregational church at Kingston, N. 
H., Aug. 4, 1 88 1, and was dismissed by council from the pastor-' 
ate, March 4, 1884, having been obliged to give up work by the 
breaking down of his health from nervous prostration. For 
three months was unable to do any work, and has since been 
engaged in the subscription book business. Canvassed for the 
first three months, traveled as field manager for six months, and 
then was in business for himself in partnership with his brother 
at Toronto, Ont., until last January. Since that date he has 
been a member of the firm of Martin Garrison & Co., subscrip- 



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tion book publishers and dealers, doing business at the above 
address. Resides at -^-^ Welhngton St. Was town superintend- 
ent of schools at Kingston in 1883. In politics calls himself an 
Independent, but not a Mugwump. Is a member of the Union 
Congregational church, Boston. Was married, July 14, 1881, 
at Georgetown, Mass., to Lizzie Sarah, daughter of the late R. 
Denis Perkins of ToDsfield, Mass. They have no children. 



George Addison Brown, 

Bellows Falls, Vt. 

Immediately after graduation he entered the law office of 
J. D. Bridgman, at Bellows Falls, and in the fall of '77 entered 
Harvard Law School, where he remained one year. For three 
years from the fall of '78 he was principal of the Bellows Falls 
High School, meanwhile continuing his law studies, so that he 
was admitted to the Windham county bar in March 188 1. In 
July 1 88 1 he began practice at Bellows Falls, and has so re- 
mained. In the September election of 1880, he received the 
Republican nomination for representative to the state legisla- 
ture, but was defeated at the polls after several ballotings. 
Was superintendent of schools for the town of Rockingham 
from 1883 to 1887, and is chairman of the board of school di- 
rectors of the town for the present year, the town system of 
schools having been adopted at the last March election. Is 
now for the third year chairman of the board of village bailiffs* 
Was one of five delegates from Vermont at the Anti-saloon 
Republican Convention, held at Chicago in Sept. 1886, and 
was appointed to represent Vermont on the national commit- 
tee of that organization, and is still acting in that capacity. 
Delivers frequent addresses on educational and temperance sub- 
jects, and has been a Memorial Day orator on two occasions. 
Is a member of the Sons of Temperance, has twice been Worthy 
Patriarch of the local division, and also Grand Worthy Patriarch 
for the state. Still a Republican in politics. Is an attendant at 
the Congregational church, and has twice been a member of the 
prudential committee of the society associated with it. Was 
married, July 18, 1877, to Flora E., daughter of Edson X. Pierce 
of Springfield, Vt. Their children are : Nelson Pierce (the class 



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baby), born May 13, 1878; Ruth, born Dec. i, 1882; James 
Barrett, born March 3, 1885. 

Alfred Hills Campbell, 

Johnson, Vt. 

For two years subsequent to graduation he was principal of 
Kingston Academy, Kingston, N. H., then for five years asso- 
ciate principal of Gushing Academy, Ashburnham, Mass., and 
since 1884 principal of the Vermont State Normal School, John- 
son, Vt. Served on the examining committee at Dartmouth in 
1885. Is one of the vice-presidents of the American Institute 
of Instruction for the present year. Is a Republican in politics 
and a member of the Congregational church at Johnson. Was 
married, Nov. 29, 1877, to Hattie E. Winchester of Westport, 
Mass. They have the following children : Arthur Winchester, 
born Sept. 12, 1878, died Dec. 29, 1878 ; Lillian Maud, born Oct. 
9, 1880 ; Carroll Alfred, born June 5, 1882 ; Alice Cary, born 
March 27, 1887. 

Philip Carpenter, 

38 Park Row, New York, N. Y. 

Read law with his father, at Bath, N. H., from July 1877, and 
was admitted to the New Hampshire bar, at Concord, Sept. 2, 1880. 
From the tenth of that month till Sept. i, 1881, he was in part- 
nership with his father, at Bath. The latter then being appoint- 
ed to the Bench, he practiced there alone till Jan. 15, 1882, 
when he became a member of the firm of Drew [D. C. 1870], 
Jordan & Carpenter, at Lancaster, N. H., to which place he re- 
moved April 15 following. In June 1885 he was admitted to 
the New York bar, and began practice there, removing there in 
September. Spent the summer of '86, from July to September, 
in a trip to Great Britain and the Continent. Was for some 
years a member of the Republican State Central Committee of 
New Hampshire, and in June 1885 was appointed by Gov. Cur- 
rier Judge Advocate General on the governor's staff, with the 
rank of Brigadier General. Member of the Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows, and a Knight Templar in the North Star Com- 
mandery, F. and A. M., at Lancaster ; also a member of the As- 
sociation of the Bar of the City of New York, the Delta Kappa 



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Epsilon Club, and the Republican Club of the City of New York. 
He attends the Madison Square Presbyterian church ; his po- 
litical proclivities are sufficiently indicated above. Was married, 
Sept. 3, 1880, at Winsted, Ct., to Fanny Hallock, daughter of 
Rev. Thomas H. Rouse of Makawao, Maui, Hawaiian Islands. 
No children. 

Edward Charles Carrigan, 

6 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass. 

Traveled through Vermont and New Hampshire as a re- 
porter for the Boston Globe from graduation to March 1878, and 
from that time till October 1879 ^^^ manager of the Passump- 
sic and Connecticut Valley News Department on the Boston 
Journal. Since that time he has done a large amount of jour- 
nalistic work in connection with several of the Boston dailies. 
For a time he maintained a nominal connection with the law of- 
fice of Farr & Stevens, Littleton, N. H., and since October 1879 
has been enrolled as a law student in Gen. B. F. Butler's office. 
Was principal of the Blossom Street Evening School, in Boston, 
from the fall of 1879 till January 1882, and of the Evening High 
School from the last date till September 1886. Was nominated 
by Gov. Butler and confirmed by the Council, May 31, 1883, as 
a member of the State Board of Education, the term of office 
being eight years. Represented the state of Massachusetts on 
appointment of the Governor as delegate to the Interstate Edu- 
cational Convention held at Louisville, Ky., in September 1883. 
Was largely instrumental in procuring the passage, by the Mas- 
sachusetts Legislature of 1886, of a bill obliging cities of 50,000 
inhabitants or over to maintain evening high schools, and an- 
other bill to strengthen the tenure of office of teachers, which 
allows the cities and towns of the state to dispense, at their op- 
tion, with the annual election of teachers. Was presented by 
the Boston Schoolmasters, Nov. 2, 1886, with a gold watch, chain, 
and Phi Beta Kappa key, as a token of their appreciation of his 
services in the tenure of office matter. Was in Europe several 
weeks in the summer and fall of 1886 for business and travel. 
Has been during the past year connected with the Boston Uni- 
versity School of Law, and graduated there in June last. Expects 
to be admitted to the bar in a few months. Is chairman of a 



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committee of the American Institute of Instruction (appointed in 
1886) relative to securing federal aid to common schools. Mem- 
ber of the Boston Press Club, The Clefs, Massachusetts School- 
masters' Club, and a life member of the Boston Schoolmasters' 
Association. Is secretary of the Boston Association of Dart- 
mouth Alumni. In politics, classes himself as a Butler Inde- 
pendent. Unmarried. 

Franklin Munroe Chapin, 

Tientsin, China. 

Spent the first three years after graduation as a student at 
Hartford Theological Seminary, graduating there in 1880. Was 
accepted for missionary service by the American Board, and as- 
signed to the North China mission. Was ordained May 20, 1880, 
in the Second Congregational church at Keene, N. H., and sail- 
ed from San Francisco Sept. i. Was stationed for some years 
at Kalgan, but is now at Pang Chuang. The post-office address 
of the mission, however, is as given above. His occasional let- 
ters printed in the Missionary Herald give a graphic account of 
his work. Has in preparation, to be issued from the press soon 
in the Chinese language, an article on Confucianism and Chris- 
tianity, which he kindly offers to send your secretary for review- 
ing. Was married, June 30, 1880, to Flora M., daughter of Wil- 
liam A. Barrett of Keene, N. H. William Sanders Chapin was 
born at Peking, May 12, 1881, and another son, whose name is 
unreported, at Kalgan in November 1883. 

Ira Arthur Chase, 

Bristol, N. H. 

In the fall and winter of 1877-8 he was principal of the 
Graded School at Bristol, N. H., and during the following spring 
and summer read law with Lewis W. Fling of Bristol. In the 
fall of 1878 he was principal of the Orleans Liberal* Institute, at 
Glover, Vt., and in February and March 1879 temporary assist- 
ant in the New Hampton (N. H.) Literary Institution. During 
the school year 1879-80 he was again in charge of the Bristol 
Graded School. Meanwhile he continued the study of law, and 
was admitted to the New Hampshire bar on examination, at Con. 



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^cord, Mar.h 17, 188 1. Has since practiced at Bristol. Was as- 
sistant clerk of the New Hampshire Senate in 1883 and]i885, and 
clerk in 1887. Has been a member of the local board of health 
and school board, and town treasurer, and is a member of the 
corporation of the Bristol Savings Bank. Is a Mason, and has 
been master of the local lodge and member of the chapter and 
council. Member of the New Hampshire Antiquarian Society. 
In politics a Republican. Member of the Bristol Congregation- 
al church, and clerk of the society connected with it. Was mar- 
ried, July 6, 1 88 1, to Abby Maria, daughter of Cyrus Taylor of 
Bristol. They have no children. 

William Folsom Chase,* 

Laconia, N. H. 

Entered the employ of S. E. Young & Co., jewelers, at La- 
conia, N. H., in October 1877, and servedt here an apprentice- 
ship of three years, after the expiration of which he remained 
with the firm till May 1883. From the next fall till March i, 
1887, he was at the head of the crockery and upholstery depart- 
ment in the mercantile establishment of O'Shea Brothers, at La- 
conia. Since the last date he has been in business for himself, 
as a dealer in books, stationery, and fancy goods. A Republi- 
can in politics. Was married in Manchester, N. H., May 21, 
1881, to Eva R., daughter of Benjamin C. Badger of Laconia. 
They have one daughter, Margery, born Sept. 26, 1885. 

George Henry Child, 

Harper's Ferry, W. Va. 

In the fall of 1878 he entered the employ of the wholesale 
'dry goods house of Morgan, Root & Co., Cleveland, O., and re- 
mained there till 1885, the firm having become Root & McBride 
Bros, in 1884, and with Taylor, Kilpatrick & Co., in the same 
business, to January 1886. From January to March of that year 
he was with E. C. Shaw & Co., Toledo, O., at which latter date 
he was called to his old home, at Harper's Ferry, W. Va., by his 
father's illness, and has since remained there as manager of a 
a general store. A Republican in politics, and without religious 
preference. Unmarried. 



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John Moore Comstock, 

Chelsea, Vt. 

Was a resident graduate at Hanover for the first year after 
graduation, and was considerably engaged in private tutoring. 
Taught at Chelsea, Vt., in the fall of 1878, and then from Decem- 
ber 1878 to April 1879 was editorial assistant on the Republican 
Observer^ at White River Junction, Vt. His home was then at 
Chelsea from May 1879, and he was engaged in teaching there 
with some intermission from September 1879 ^^^^ November 1882. 
Was principal of the High School at Springfield, Vt., from March 
1883 to June 1884, and instructor in languages in the Vermont 
Episcopal Institute, at Burlington, Vt., from December 1884 till 
June 1885. The death of his father, in July 1885, caused him 
to remain in Chelsea, and he has been principal of Chelsea Acad- 
emy since April 1886, Was town superintendent of schools from 
April 1881 to March 1883, and is county treasurer for the two 
years beginning Dec. i, 1886. Has been statistical secretary of 
the Alumni Association of Dartmouth College since 1881 ; is a 
member of the Vermont Historical Society. Has edited the fol- 
lowing published pamphlets : Eight Annual Reports of the Class 
of 1877, besides this Decennial Record ; eleven annual issues of 
the Obituary Record of the Graduates of Dartmouth College^ pp. 
209 in all ; General Catalogue of Dartmouth College, 1880, pp. 208 ; 
Supplement to the General Catalogue of Dartmouth College, 1885, pp. 
56 ; Address List of the AlimDii of Dart7nouth College, 1882, pp. 55 ; 
Catalogue of the New Hampshire Alpha of the Fhi Beta Kappa^ 
1884, pp. 74; another edition of the same, 1887, PP- 7^5 ^^so 
the greater part of a Ma7iual of the Co?igregational Church ifi 
Chelsea, Vermont, 1882, pp. 63. In politics is a Republican, 
but a rather unreliable one. Is a member of the Congrega- 
tional church of Chelsea, member of its standing committee, 
superintendent of its Sunday-School, and clerk of the ecclesias- 
tical society connected therewith. Was married, Aug. 24, 1881, 
to Persis Sylvia, daughter of Dea. Franklin Dearborn of Chel- 
sea. Their children are as follows: Harold Dearborn, born 
June 13, 1882; Catherine, born Aug. 18, 1884, died Aug. 26, 
1884; Donald Laird, born Oct. 17, 1885; Margaret, born Jan. 
24, 1887. 



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Charles Hermance Cooper, 

Northfield, Minn. 

In September 1877 he took charge of the Abbott Grammar 
School, in Washington, D. C, but resigned in the ensuing winter 
and returned to New England, taking charge of the High School 
at East Longmeadow, Mass., during the spring of '78. During 
the summer he attended the Sauveur School of Languages at 
Amherst. For the year following he served as assistant in the 
Hitchcock Free High School, Brimfield, Mass., and then, being 
promoted to the principalship, remained in that capacity three 
years. The year 1882-3 he spent as tutor at Dartmouth, having 
charge of the freshman Greek and the history of freshman and 
sophomore years. In the spring of 1883 he was elected to the 
chair of History and Political Science in Carleton College, North- 
field, Minn., where he began work in the ensuing fall, and where 
he still remains. He is connected with the First Congregation- 
al church of Northfield, being a member of its prudential com- 
mittee and assistant superintendent of its Sunday-School ; polit- 
ically, he wishes to be classed as a Mugwump. He was married 
at North Woburn, Mass., Jan. 10, 1883, to Caroline Antoinette, 
daughter of the late Rev. Melancthon G. Wheeler of Woburn. 
They have one daughter, Helen, born July 24, 1884. 

Albert Glenmore Cox, 

Essex, Vt. 

Was principal of the Vermont Liberal Institute, Plymouth 
Uuion, Vt., in the fall of '77, of the Cavendish (Vt.) Graded 
School in the ensuing winter, and again at Plymouth Union in 
the spring of '78. From the fall of '78 to the spring of '80 trav- 
eled most of the time as insurance agent, also farming a little. 
Was again principal of the Vermont Liberal Institute from the 
spring of 1880 till the close of the spring term of 1881. From 
188 1 to 1886 was principal of the New Hampton Institution, 
Fairfax, Vt., and since the fall of 1886 of the Essex Classical 
Institute, Essex, Vt. Has meanwhile been enrolled as a law 
student with T. O. Seaver of Woodstock, Vt., and is nearly ready 
to apply for admission to the bar. Was town superintendent of 
schools at Fairfax from April 1883 to April 1886. Is president 



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of the Essex Village Improvement Society. A Republican in 
politics. A member of the Baptist church at Essex, and super- 
intendent of its Sunday-School. Was married, Dec. 5, 188 1, 
to Viola S., daughter of Rowland Maxham of Bridgewater, Vt. 
They have no children. 

Reuben Melville Cramer, 

III West 34th St., New York, N. Y. 

Was a city reporter on the ]Sew York Times in the sum- 
mer of 1877, and for a year from the ensuing fall was principal 
of the flearne (Texas) Academy, doing some work also on the 
Hearne Courier. He then studied medicine at the University of 
Pennsylvania, and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of 
New York, graduating at the latter in the spring of 1881. From 
the spring of 1880 till the following October he was house phys- 
ician and surgeon at the Hudson County Hospital, Jersey City, 
N. J., and for some time thereafter house surgeon at the Sailors' 
Retreat Hospital, Staten Island. From the spring of 1881 till 
December 1882 he held a similar position at Mt. Sinai Hospital, 
New York, and has since been in private practice in that city. 
In 1883 he reported himself as instructor in surgery in the New 
York Polyclinic Medical School, and as connected with the 
Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital. Supposed to be still a Dem- 
ocrat and unmarried. 

William Gage Davis, 

Mills Building, 15 Broad St., New York, N. Y. 

Took the two years' course in Columbia Law School, from 
which he graduated in May 1879. Has since been in practice 
in New York city, having been for some time with Dos Passos 
Brothers, at the above address. Is a Republican and a mem- 
ber of the Pilgrim Congregational church, New York. Was 
married in New York city, Sept. 14, 1886, to E. F., daughter of 
the late John D. Farrington. 



Charles Lombard Day, son of the Rev. Dr. Pliny Butts 
and Mary B. (Chapin) Day, was born at Hollis, N. H., April 28, 



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1854. His father, a graduate of Amherst in 1834, was a Con- 
gregational pastor in Derry, N. H., and finally at Hollis, where 
he died in 1869. He was also a trustee of Dartmouth from 1863 
to his death. After Dr. Day's death, the family returned to 
Derry, where our classmate was partially fitted for college at 
Pinkerton Academy. In 187 1 they removed to Grinnell, Iowa, 
which was Day's home for the remainder of his life. He was 
there connected with Iowa College, in the Preparatory Depart- 
ment and for one year in the college proper, joining our class at 
the beginning of our sophomore year. In the fail after gradua- 
tion he was instructor in the English Language and Literature 
in the Michigan Military Academy, at Orchard Lake, Mich., 
and in the ensuing winter began the study of law at Grinnell, in 
the office of Haines & Lyman. He spent the year 1878-9 in 
the Law Department of the State University of Iowa, at Iowa 
City, graduating there in June 1879, and being admitted to the 
bar at the same time. He was intending to return to Iowa City 
for further study, but was taken with typho-malarial fever, which 
resulted in his death, at his home in Grinnell, Sept. 20, 1879, ^f" 
ter an illness of about two weeks. For a long time he had been 
hampered in his work by a weakness of the heart, and it was the 
failure of this organ that finally caused his death. Naturally re- 
served, and a close student, we did not know him so well in col- 
lege as many of the class were known, but he was highly re- 
spected by us all, and his early death caused sincere grief. 



Clifton Slate Deane, 

Prattville, Ala. 

Was teacher of mathematics and sciences in Lawrence Acad- 
emy, Groton, Mass., for the first year after graduation. In the 
summer of '78 studied chemistry at the Summer School of Sci- 
.ence at Cambridge, Mass. In the fall ensuing he had charge of 
a High School at Sheffield, Mass., and was then at home (Ber- 
nardston, Mass.) till August 1879. At that date he went to 
Grundy Center, Iowa, where he taught in the fall, and for the 
next six years had charge of various public schools in Grundy 
and Marshall counties, in that state, with now and then an " ex- 
cursion " into the book business, and some other lines. Was 



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principal of the Fayette County Male and Female Institute, at 
Fayette C. H., Ala,, for the school year 1885-6, and has been 
since the fall of 1886 principal of the Prattville (Ala.) Male and 
Female Academy, and superintendent of the public schools of 
Prattville. Has acted of late with the Democratic party. Is a 
member of a Congregational church. Unmarried. 



Charles Rollin Dustin, 

74 Sagamore St., Manchester, N. H. 

Taught at New Boston, N. H., in the fall of 1877, at Well- 
fleet, Mass., in the ensuing winter, and in the spring of 1878 a 
Grammar School in Manchester, N. H. From the fall of 1878 
he read law for about two years and a half in the office of John 
H. Andrews, in Manchester, and has since been clerk for the 
John Hoyt Co., paper manufacturers, the firm being now known 
as the Amoskeag Paper Co. Was married, June 13, 1885, to 
Hattie May, daughter of William C. Knowlton of Manchester. 
A son was born March 6, 1886, but lived but a short time. 

Charles Winthrop Eager, 

776 Elm St., Manchester, N. H. 

Has been book-keeper for Eager & Rand, grocers, in Man- 
chester, for most of the time since graduation. Read law for a 
time with Hon. H. E. Burnharn [D. C. 1865]. Was a member 
of the city Common Council in 1878, 1879, and 1880, and an 
Alderman in 1887. Was a member of the New Hampshire 
House of Representatives in 1881, serving on the Committee 
on Elections. A member of the Derryfield Club ; Republican 
in politics. Was married, Dec. 16, 1886, to Jennie S. WiUiams 
of Manchester. 

Eugene Leslie Emery, 

Grand Forks, Dak. 

Entered the law office of Copeland & Edgerly, Great Falls, 

N. H., Aug. 13, 1877. Was principal of a Grammar School at 

Hampton, N. H., in the winter of 1877-8, and taught at New- 

ington, N. H., in the winter of 1878-9. Left Great Falls late in 



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1879, and was a student in the office of Brooks, Camirand & 
Hurd, at Sherbrooke, Que., from Dec, 22, 1879, ^^^^ -^^g- 28, 

1880. Was then for one year principal of the Frelighsburg 
(Que.) Academy, and for the fall and winter of 188 1-2 of the 
Barton (Vt.) Academy and Graded School. Was admitted to 
the bar of Orleans county, at Irasburg, Vt., Feb. 12, 1882, and 
opened an office at Grand Forks, Dak., March 28. He gradu- 
ally worked into the loan business, the first year acting as agent 
for the Red River Loan and Trust Co. of Fargo, and later on 
his own account. In 1885 he visited New Hampshire and or- 
ganized the New England Investment Co., which was incorpor- 
ated Aug. 12, 1885. Of this company he is secretary and gen- 
eral manager, having entire charge of the business. Sumner 
Wallace is a director of the company, and has been largely in- 
terested in its operations. Emery has been since its organiza- 
tion (March 1885) a director of the Grand Forks National Bank. 
Is a Democrat in politics, and was secretary of the Democratic 
city committee during the year 1886. Attends the Presbyterian 
church. Was married, Oct. 30, 1883, to Isabel M., daughter of 
Rufus I. Stevens of Great Falls, N. H. They have no children. 

Fred Winslow Farnsworth, 

Red Wing, Minn. 

Has been since graduation principal of the High School at 
Red Wing. Is a Republican in politics, and one of Service's 
parishioners m the First Presbyterian church of Red Wing. Was 
married in the spring of 1885, and has two children — both girls 
— one born May 5, 1886, and the other May 24, 1887. He has 
not reported the names of wife or children. 



Charles Bartlett Hammond, 

Nashua, N. H. 

Spent the first three years after graduation in Harvard Med- 
ical School, graduating in June 1880, and has been in practice 
in Nashua since Oct. i, 1880. Was married, Oct. 16, 1883, to 
Mary Louisa, daughter of Dr. William A. Tracy of Nashua. A 
son died in the spring of 1885, at the age of eleven months. 



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John" DeForest Haskell, 

Stromsburg, Neb. 

In the fall of 1877 began the study of law with Hatch & 
Parkinson [D, C. 1870], in Cincinnati, O., but an attack of ty- 
phoid fever soon compelled him to come home to recruit, and he 
remained there the rest of the year. Studied at Harvard Law 
School in 1878-9, and at Boston University in 1879-80, gradu- 
ating at the latter in 1880. Practiced at Norfolk, Neb., in the 
firm of Haskell & Sattler, from 1880 to 1884, being county at- 
torney some time from the spring of 1882. Has since been at 
Stromsburg, Neb., as president of the Park Bank, established 
Sept. 9, 1884. Is vicepresident of the Stromsburg Board of 
Trade, a Mason, a Republican, and in religious preference a 
Congregationalist, though a trustee of a Presbyterian church. 
Was married. May 20, 1885, to Nellie Trumbull, daughter of 
William Mathewson of South Woodstock, Ct. They have a son, 
Cornelius DeForest, the date of whose birth has not been re- 
ported. 

John Edward Ingham, 

327 Jackson St., St. Paul, Minn. 

Was appointed receiver to wind up the affairs of the Park 
Place Hotel, in St. Paul, July 27, 1877, and managed the hotel 
until Nov. 9. Two days after, he entered the employ of Ingham 
& Corlies, manufacturers of doors, sash and blinds. With the in- 
tention of learning the business, he began near the bottom of the 
ladder, as teamster. In about a year he became salesman, and in 
February 1879 the business was left in his hands for about two 
months, and after that he was head salesman, and business man - 
ager in the absence of Mr. Corlies, the office partner. In Janu- 
ary 188 1 the firm became Corlies, Chapman & Drake, and he 
remained with them till 1884, being most of the time in charge 
of their manufacturing department. From March 20, 1884, till 
March 1886, he was in the same line of business for himself, be- 
ing vice-president of the Taylor & Craig Company, in which firm 
he had one-third interest. In June 18S6 he bought out the stock 
of E. Lytle, dealer in watches, diamonds, and jewelry, and has 
since followed this business successfully. Is a Mason, a Repub- 
lican, and an attendant at Christ church (Episcopal). Was mar- 



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ried, July 3, 1883, to Anna B., daughter of Isaac Banker of St. 
Paul. Their children are Helen Marion, born April 30, 1884, 
and Edith Belle, born Oct. 31, 1885. 



John Savillian Ladd, 

Sistof, Bulgaria. 

Studied for three years in Union Theological Seminary, 
graduating May 10, 1880. Was ordained deacon and elder of 
the Methodist Episcopal church by Bishop Willey, in New York, 
April 4, 1880, and joined the New York Conference. Was ap- 
pointed missionary to Bulgaria, and sailed from New York June 
12. Was stationed at Sistof till April 1883, and was then for a 
year at Rustchuck, in charge of the book business of the mis- 
sion. Has since been at Sistof, in charge of a theological school. 
Was married at Philippopolis, May 24, 1881, to Rosa Doolittle, 
a graduate of Oberlin in '75, and a missionary teacher. They 
are said to have had one child, not now living. Ladd has not 
reported of late. 

Charles Edward Leslie, 

Waseca, Minn. 

Read law with his father, C. B. Leslie, at Wells River, Vt., 
from Sept. i, 1877, and was admitted to the Orange county bar, 
at Chelsea, June 7, 1879, Went to Minnesota in the latter part 
of July, and soon located in practice at Waterville, removing to 
Waseca, Jan. i, 1880, where he has since practiced. Was city 
attorney from May 1881 to May 1882, and again since May 1887. 
Was judge of the municipal court by appointment of the gov- 
ernor, from August 1885 to May 1886. Unsuccessful candidate 
for county attorney on the Prohibition ticket in 1886. Hardly 
knows whether to call himself a Democrat or a Prohibitionist. 
A member of the Congregational church at Waseca. Was mar- 
ried, May I, 1882, to Martha Josephine, daughter of Samuel S. 
Comee of Waseca. Their children are : Charles Comee, born 
Aug. 28, 1883 ; Myron Frederick, born Sept. 5, 1885 ; Ruth 
Elizabeth, born July 15, 1887. 



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John Crego Lester, 

406 Clinton St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Taught at Goshen, Ct., in the fall and winter of 1877-8. 
Studied medicine at the Long Island College Hospital, Brook. 
lyn, from the spring of 1878, graduating there June 27, 1879. 
In the following month he was appointed assistant physician at 
the Kings County Lunatic Asylum, in Brooklyn. Resigned in 
a few months to accept an appointment as medical superintend- 
ent of the Inebriates' Home, at Fort Hamilton, N. Y. Left 
there early in 1881, and has since been engaged in general prac- 
tice in Brooklyn. Since 1882 he has been editor of the Ameri- 
can Medical Digest, monthly. Is a Mason, a member of the 
American Legion of Honor, the Royal Arcanum, and the Knights 
of Honor, and surgeon general of the National Provident Union. 
Member of the Medical Society of the County of Kings. Head 
physician to the Southern Dispensary and Hospital in Brooklyn. 
In politics a '"''quasi Democrat," and was president of the South 
Brooklyn Independent Club in the campaign of 1884. A Con- 
gregationalist in religious preference. Was married, June 24, 
1880, to Octavia, daughter of Noah S. Wadhams of Goshen, Ct, 
They have no children. 

Charles Edwin Lord, 

Franklin, Pa. 

In the fall and winter of 1877-8 he was principal of the 
Charlestown, N. H., High School, and in the succeeding spring, 
summer, and fall traveled as canvasser through Southern New 
Hampshire and Vermont. In the winter of '78-9 he taught 
at East Lebanon, N. H., and then from the last of Febru- 
ary to the last of April was in collection business in Boston. 
Served as principal of the High School at Saugus, Mass., in the 
spring of '79, and was then till Sept. i, 1880, traveling agent for 
Sheldon & Co.'s school publications. Was in charge of a Gram- 
mar School at Vineyard Haven, Mass., in the fall of 1880, and 
at South Chatham, Mass., in the following winter. From March 
I to July I, 1 88 1, he was classical teacher in Temple Grove La- 
dies' Seminary, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. ; from Aug. i, 1881, to 
March i, 1883, head master of the Weston MiHtary Institute, 



OF BAR TMO UTH '77. 1 9 

Weston, Ct., and then till Sept. i principal of the last-named 
school. Was then classical master in the Yeates Institute, Lan- 
caster, Pa., for one year, and for two years engaged in private 
tutoring in Newport, R. I. His present position in charge of 
the High School at Franklin, Pa., he assumed in the fall of 1886. 
Politically, he is a Mugwump ; to the question regarding relig- 
ious preference he declares himself to be " a member of the 
Protestant Episcopal church, and a firm believer in the doctrine 
of evolution as held by John Fiske." He was married at Vine- 
yard Haven, Mass., May 21, 1885, to Annie Franklin, daughter 
of Capt. Grafton L. Daggett of Vineyard Haven. A daughter, 
Constance, was born Oct. 20, 1886. 

John Merriam, 

New Milford, Susquehanna Co., Pa. 

Spent the first three years after graduation in Andover The- 
ological Seminary, graduating there in 1880. For a time during 
his senior year there he supplied the pulpit of the Congregation- 
al church at Dracut, Mass. For three months from Sept. 1880 
he was acting pastor of the Presbyterian church at North Platte, 
Neb. Went from there to New Hampton, la., and began work 
there with the Congregational church, being ordained May 19, 
1881. Left there in the latter part of January, 1882, and went 
to New York, giving his time to post-graduate study in Union 
Theological Seminary till the term closed, in May. Went di- 
rectly to Harford, Pa., where he remained with the Congrega- 
tional church till Nov. 1884. From Nov. 9, 1884, to May 1887, 
was pastor of the Bennet Presbyterian church, at Luzerne, Pa., 
and since the last date of a church of the same denomination 
at New Milford, Pa. A Republican in poHtics. Unmarried. 

Henry Lynn Moore, 
245 Hennepin Ave., MiAneapolis, Minn. 
Went to Lake City, Minn., August 1877, as principal of the 
High School ; at the end of the first year was elected superin- 
tendent of schools, and continued in that position till Feb. 1882. 
From that date till the following June he was principal of the 
Washington School in Minneapolis, at the last date being chosen 



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assistant superintendent of schools. Held this position till June 
1886, being acting superintendent most of the time till Jan. 1884, 
in the absence of the superintendent as U. S. Consul at Trieste 
and afterwards at Leipsic. In June 1886 the office of assistant 
was merged in the superintendency, and he permanently left the 
profession of teaching. Is now in the real estate and loan bus- 
iness, in the firm of Spear & Moore. Is a member of the An- 
cient Order of United Workmen, and a Master Workman in the 
same ; Secretary of the Dartmouth Association of the North- 
west. Republican in politics ; a member of the Plymouth Con- 
gregational church, Minneapolis. Was married, Dec. 25, 1879, 
to Nettie, daughter of Hiram Center of Lake City. They have 
two children, — Guernsey Center, born Jan. 7, 188 1, and Edith, 
born Nov. 8, 1883. 

Willis Emerson Noxon, 
27 Washington Ave. South, Minneapohs, Minn. 
He was principal of the Graded School at Housatonic, 
Mass., through the fall and winter of 1877-8. In the spring of 
'78 he began the stu^y of law with H. C. Joynes, at Great Bar- 
rington, Mass., but his eyes failed, and he resumed teaching in 
the fall, as superintendent of schools at Port Jefferson, N. Y., 
where he remained two years. He held a similar position at 
Plainview, Minn,, from 1880 to 1882, and then, having contin- 
ued his law studies while teaching, took a year in the Law School 
of the University of Michigan, and after graduating there in 
April 1883, opened an office in Minneapohs, in the firm of Nox- 
on & Benton, where he still remains. Unmarried. " In politics 
a Mugwump ; my religion embraces the whole human race and 
the planetary system." 

Frederick Langdon Owen, Jr., 
Canton, Mass. 
Read law with C. A. Dole, Lebanon, N. H., from July to 
November, 1877, long enough to satisfy him that the profession 
was not to his taste. Was then principal of the Grammar School 
at Dennis Port, Mass., from Dec. 2, 1877, to Sept. 20, 1878, 
and then in a school of the same grade at Harwich, Mass., 



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from Dec. 2 to Dec. 27, 1878, Then was at Canton, Mass., 
at the head of a Graded School, from Dec. 30, 1878, to April 
188 1. Then went to FrankUn Falls, N. H., as principal of a 
High School, but was recalled to Canton the same week to 
take the principalship of the High School there. In this posi- 
tion he remains. A member of the High School Masters' Club, 
meeting monthly in Boston. A Republican, and an attendant 
at a Congregational church. Was married, Dec. 28, 1881, to 
Emma Poelien, daughter of William Bense of Canton. No chil- 
dren. 

Oscar Joseph Pfeiffer, 

Denver, Colo. 

For the three years immediately following our graduation 
he had charge of the Graded School at Lancaster, N. H., and 
for the next three was a member of Harvard Medical School. 
Rowed on the Harvard University crew of 1881. On going to 
Boston, became assistant to Carrigan in the Blossom St. Even- 
ing School, and on the latter's promotion became principal of 
the same, Jan. 24, 1882. In October 1882 he began a connec- 
tion with the Massachusetts General Hospital, which continued 
until August I, 1884, he finishing his service as senior house 
surgeon. In June 1884 he received his medical degree. From 
August to November he kept an office in Boston, and at the lat- 
ter date received the appointment which he still holds as Med- 
ical Director of the Union Pacific Railway Co., with headquar- 
ters at Denver. A member of the Massachusetts Medical Soci- 
ety. In politics usually acts with the Republican party ; as to 
religious preference has nothing to answer. Was married in 
New York city, Nov. 8, 1884, to Annie Hale, daughter of Sam- 
uel G. Folsom of Portsmouth, N. H. No children. 



William Warren Prescott, 

Battle Creek, Mich. 

He was principal of the Graded School at Northfield, Vt, 
for two years, and then for one year principal of the Montpelier 
(Vt.) Union School. From June 1880 till April i, 1882, he was 
editor and part owner of the Biddeford, Me., Union and Journal, 



22 DECENNIAL RECORD 

and from the last date till July 24, 1885, editor and proprietor 
of the Vermont WaUh?nan, Montpelier, Vt. Upon leaving Mont- 
pelier he became president of Battle Creek College, at Battle 
Creek, Mich., his present position. Only offices reported are, 
member of the school board at Montpelier, and trustee of the 
Seventh Day Adventist Educational Society at Battle Creek. 
Acts with the Republican party, when with any ; member of the 
Seventh Day Adventist church of Battle Creek. Was married 
at Penacook, N. H., July 8, 1880, to Sarah Frances, daughter of 
J. P. Sanders. No children. 



Angus Archibald Robertson, 
199 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Spent the first year after graduation in Yale Theological 
Seminary, then transferring his relations to Oberlin Seminary, 
where he graduated in June 1880. Soon after he began work 
with the Congregational church at South Haven, Mich., and was 
ordained to the ministry there Nov. 4, 1880. Left there in the 
fall of 1 88 1 on account of malaria. After remaining for some 
time in and about Chicago, under medical treatment, he became 
pastor at Buda, 111., the first of October, 1881, and remained 
there till the first of November, 1882. The ensuing winter he 
spent in Portland, Me., and was then pastor of the Second Con- 
gregational church at Massena, N. Y., from May 1883 to June 
1884. In July following he began work at Vergennes, Vt., 
and was installed pastor Aug. 26. Was dismissed by council, 
after a very successful pastorate, April 26, 1887, and left there 
May 3. Spent the summer with a brother at Medford, Mass., 
and meanwhile accepted a call to the Willoughby Avenue Con- 
gregational church of Brooklyn, where at the date of his last 
letter he was expecting to begin work the middle of August. 
Was town superintendent of schools at Vergennes from April 
1886 to April 1887. A Republican in politics. He was mar- 
ried, Sept. 16, 1880, to Mary Barrows, daughter of William C. 
How of Portland, Me. As this Record goes to press, comes the 
sad news of Mrs. Robertson's death, at Medford, on the first of 
August. She leaves one son, William Lord How, born April 2, 
1883. 



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Benjamin Franklin Robinson, 

Littleton, N. H. 

Was the first two years after graduation principal of the 
High School at Littleton, and then entered upon the drug busi- 
ness there in the firm of Robinson Brothers. From Jan. i, 1881, 
to May I, 1887, was of the firm of Robinson & Goold, editors 
and proprietors of The Littleton Journal^ a weekly newspaper. 
At the last date the paper changed hands, and Robinson has 
not reported his present business or prospects. Was elected a 
member of the Littleton Board of Education in the winter of 
1880 for a term of three years, and was re-elected in 1883 and 
1886. Was also superintendent of schools for the year 1885, 
and was appointed last spring collector of taxes for the town. 
Is a Mason, having taken the degrees to and including Knight 
Templar ; has been Prelate of St. Gerard Commandery of Lit- 
tleton. Republican in politics. He was married, Dec. 24, 1879, 
to E. Addie, daughter of the late Edward Kilburn of Littleton- 
Their children are : Fred Kilburn, born July 23, 1881, died April 
27, 1882 ; Edward Kilburn, born April 16, 1883 ; Frank Owen, 
born Dec. 6, 1886. 

Lewis Rosenthal, 
20 Irving Place, New York, N. Y. 

Went abroad in the summer of 1877, and was located in 
Paris till December t88i, when he returned to New York. 
While there was a student of philology and literature at the Sor- 
bonne and the College de France, a student of law with Hon. E. 
F. Noyes [D. C. 1857], United States Minister to France, a pri- 
vate tutor, a contributor to various newspapers, and assistant sec- 
retary of the Franco-Texan Land Company, Since returning to 
New York he has been engaged in various literary and journal- 
istic work, the latter chiefly in connection with the Times and 
World. Is the author of the following book, published in May 
1882 by Henry Holt & Co. : America and France ; the Influence of 
the United States o?t France in the Eighteenth Ceittury, — also of 
Rousseau in Philadelphia (pp. 10), in the Magazine of American 
History for July 1884. Has not reported in person for a long 
time, but is supposed to be still a Democrat and unmarried. 



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John Andrew Rowell, 

Brainerd, Minn. 

Left the class at the end of junior year, and spent the next 
two years on a farm at Chichester, N. H., teaching also for a 
part of the time. In September 1878 he entered Bangor Theo- 
logical Seminary in the middle class, graduating there June 2, 
1880. In that month began work at Weare, N. H., under ap- 
pointment from the New Hampshire Home Missionary Society, 
and was ordained pastor of the Congregational church at South 
Weare, Oct. 14, 1880. Was dismissed from the pastorate by coun- 
cil,Dec. 7,1882, having accepted a call to Francestown, N. H., and 
remained at Francestown till Nov. i, 1886. He then went to Min- 
nesota on invitation of the Superintendent of the Minneapolis 
Home Missionary Society, with the intention of doing home mis- 
sionary work, but soon accepted a call to the First Congrega- 
tional church of Brainerd, beginning work there Dec. 5, 1886. 
Edited a Report of the Dedicatory Exercises of the Congregational 
Church Edifice^ FrancestowJi^ N. H.^July ist, 1884., pp. 23. At 
the last college commencement, he was given the degree of 
Bachelor of Arts by vote of the trustees and restored to his 
class, and in consequence will hereafter be regarded as a grad- 
uate member of the class. In politics is a Prohibitionist. Was 
married, July 5, 1875, to Alma Narcissa, daughter of Albert 
Holmes of Hopkinton, N. H. Their children are : Wilfrid Asa, 
born March 5, 1877 ^ Marion Eliza, born April 18, 1879 '•> Flor- 
ence May, born July 31, 1881 : Paul Albert, born July 24, 1882, 
died Sept. 15, 1883; Maurice Holmes, born Aug. 13, 1884. 

George William Saunderson, 

218 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mass. 

Read law one year from September 1887 with George B. 
French [D. C. 1872], at Nashua, N. H. During the next two years 
he was a member of the Law School of Boston University, where 
he graduated in June 1880, also being in the offices of N. W. 
Ladd [D. C. 1873] and J. H. Hardy [D. C. 1870], in Boston. 
Was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in May 1880, and prac- 
ticed in Boston from January 1881 to September 1883. f^is 
health having failed, he then gave up practice and went to Cal- 



OF DAR TMO UTH '77. 25 

ifornia. After traveling through the state for some time, in Jan- 
uary 1884 he bought a small fruit ranch near Santa Barbara, 
and remained there till the si.mmer of 1886, Since the fall of 
1886 he has been studying in the Monroe College of Oratory, in 
Boston. Expects to remain there for another year, and then to 
make the teaching of the Monroe system his profession. Is a 
member of the A. O. U. W. ; in politics a Republican, with Mug- 
wump tendencies ; a member of a Congregational church. Un- 
married. 

Robert John Service, 

Red Wing, Minn. 

Became principal of the High School at Ottumwa, Iowa, in 
the fall of 1877, resigning in November 1878 to become private 
secretary to the assistant superintendent of the Chicago, Burl- 
ington & Quincy R. R., at Burlington, Iowa. Left this position 
Aug. 20, 1879, and entered Union Theological Seminary, where 
he graduated in May 1882. Spent several months in European 
travel in the summers of 1881 and '82. Remained at the semin- 
ary for a year of post-graduate study, and in August 1883 located 
at Red Wing with the First Presbyterian church, over which he 
was ordained pastor by presbytery, Oct. 25, 1883. Was mar- 
ried, Sept. 2, T884, to Mary Duncan, daughter of Thomas Mc- 
Ilwraith of Hamilton, Ont. 

John Ladd Sewall, 

Milton, Vt. 

He was for two years principal of the Preparatory Depart- 
Tnent of Olivet College, Olivet, Mich., and then spent three years 
in Andover Theological Seminary, where he graduated in June 
1882, He began preaching at once at Westminster, Vt., and 
was ordained pastor of the Congregational church there July 19. 
He resigned in the spring of 1885, and was formally dismissed 
by council, April 21. Began work with the church at Milton, 
Vt., the first of June following, and was installed pastor March 
10, 1886. Has done considerable reporting for the Boston Jour- 
nal and Globe, and editorial work on the Vermont Chronicle and 
Chicago Advance. An open letter of his to the Brattleboro In- 
dependents, printed in the Brattleboro FhcBnix oi Aug. 12, 1884, 



26 DECENNIAL RECORD 

almost persuaded your secretary to vote for Blaine ! Was scribe 
of the Convention of Congregational Ministers and Churches of 
Vermont, held at St. Albans in June 1884, and is now first Vice- 
President of the state organization of the Young People's Soci- 
ety of Christian Endeavor. In politics, there is no question as 
to his Republicanism. Was married at Littleton, Mass., Oct. 
31, 1883, to Katharine Mussey, daughter of Shattuck Hariwell 
of Littleton, and reports as children, Mary Burnham, born Sept. 
2, 1885, and Katharine Mussey, born Sept. 29, 1886. 

Albert Kimball Smith, 

154 Public Square, Cleveland, O. 

Read law from the summer of 1877 to the spring of 1879 
with Austin DeWolf of Greenfield, Mass., teaching in the spring 
of 1878 at Hinsdale, N. H. He then decided to give up the 
law, and studied medicine from September 1879 with Dr. H. F. 
Biggar of Cleveland, O., and at Cleveland Homeopathic Med- 
ical College, where he graduated in March 1881. Was then in 
practice with Dr. Biggar till April 1882, and removed to Bellaire, 
Ohio, in May 1882. In the spring of 1885 he returned to Cleve- 
land, and has since remained there. Is surgeon to the Cleve- 
land Workhouse and the House of Refuge and Correction. A 
Republican in politics. Was married, June 28, 1883, to Ella 
Over of Bellaire. 

Justin Harvey Smith, 

7, 9, and 13 Tremont Place, Boston, Mass. 

From July 1877 to Jan. 1878 he was private secretary to 
John D. Philbrick, LL.D., [D. C. 1842], Superintendent of 
Schools of Boston. From February to July, 1878, he served as 
secretary of the United States Educational Exhibit at the Paris 
Exposition, of which Mr. Philbrick had been appointed superin- 
tendent, and in that capacity sailed from New York in March. 
After the expiration of this engagement he spent several months 
in European travel, returning to America in October. From 
Oct. 1877 to Feb. 1879 ^^ '^^s ^^s^ principal of the Neponset 
Evening School. From Oct. 1878 to Feb. 1879 ^e was secretary 
of the Boston University School of Oratory, also a student there, 
and somewhat engaged in private tutoring, and then from Feb- 



OF BAR TMO UTH '77. 27 

ruary to July superintendent of schools at Maiden, Mass. From 
Sept. 1879 t<^ May 188 1 he studied at Union Theological Sem- 
inary, New York, doing at the same time considerable private 
tutoring, and assisting Mrs. Martha J. Lamb in the preparation 
of her history of New York city. Being compelled by a throat 
trouble to relinquish or at least postpone his plans for a profes- 
sional career, he served from May 1881 to Feb. 1883 as New- 
York agent for the educational publications of Charles Scribner's 
Sons, and from February to June as Chicago agent for the same 
firm. The firm then closed up their school-book department, 
and he at once took charge of the New York agency of Ginn, 
Heath & Co., remaining there till July 1884, when he was pro- 
moted to be manager of the home (Boston) ofiice of Ginn & Co., 
successors to Ginn, Heath & Co., and still retains the position. 
His published literary work has been confined to the catalogues 
and circulars of Ginn & Co., which in 1885-6 amounted each 
year to two large volumes. He is a member of the Boston Art 
Club, a Mugwump, a Congregationalist, and unmarried. His 
residence is at 29 Beacon St., and office as given above. 

William Lang Sutherland, 

Medford, Minn. 

Remained at home, in Bath, N. H., in ill health till the 
spring of 1878. Having been licensed to preach by the Orange 
Association, May 7, 1878, he went to Minnesota the next month 
in the employ of the American Home Missionary Society, and 
was stationed at Morristown, in that state, till the fall of 1880, 
having charge of churches there and at Waterville. Then for 
several months he was engaged in a general missionary work in 
Big Stone and Traverse counties, being ordained to the Congre- 
gational ministry at Ortonville, Minn., Dec. 15, 1880. For one 
year from April i, 188 1, he was acting pastor of the church at 
Fergus Falls, Minn. ; but his health became badly broken, and 
he was forced to give up professional work. From July 1882 to 
Dec. 1883 he was in the employ of E. J. Woodham, furniture 
dealer and manufacturer, at Fergus Falls, preaching in various 
places on Sundays as health permitted. At the expiration of 
this time his health became sufiiciently restored to enable him to 



28 DECENNIAL RECORD 

feel justified in accepting a call to the Congregational church at 
Medford, Minn., where he still remains. Is an Independent in 
politics. Was married at Morristown, Minn., Oct. 19, 1880, to 
Hollie, daughter of Joseph Hopkins of Morristown. Mary Alice 
was born Sept. 2, 1885, and Anna Waters, May 19, 1887. 

• 

William .Franklin Temple, 

316 Shawmut Ave., Boston, Mass. 

Spent the first three years after graduation as a student in 
Harvard Medical School, but did not receive his medical degree 
until 1881, as he served in the Boston City Hospital from July 
I, 1880, till Jan. I, 1882, retiring as house physician. The time 
from the last date till the first of August following he spent in 
travel through Western Europe, going as far south as Sicily, and 
as far north as Denmark. Since September 1882 he has been 
in practice in Boston. In 1883 was appointed visiting physician 
to the St. Elizabeth Hospital, in 1885 district physician to the 
Boston Dispensary, and in 1886 physician to out-patients at the 
Carney Hospital. Is a Blue Lodge Mason, member of several 
benefit societies,- and a fellow of the Massachusetts Medical So- 
ciety. A Mugwump and a Unitarian. Was married in Boston, 
Sept. 30, 1886, to Mary Alice, daughter of John Ferrin. 

Samuel Brackett Thombs, 

Knightville, Me. 

Began the study of medicine in Aug. 1877 at the Portland 
School for Medical Instruction, teaching a part of the time at West- 
brook Seminary, Stevens Plains, Me. Attended two courses of 
lectures at the Medical School of Maine, at Brunswick, and gradu- 
ated there in June 1880. After a short rest at home, he located in 
August at Knightville, Cape Elizabeth, Me., where he has since 
remained. Has held no office save the chairmanship of the pres- 
ent local board of health. Is a member of the Maine Medical 
Association, and of the Cumberland County Medical Associa- 
tion ; also of Hiram Lodge of Master Masons, Greenleaf Chap- 
ter Royal Arch Masons, and St. Alban Commandery Knights 
Templars. Is a Democrat and a Universalist. Was married at 



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Lewiston, Me., Aug. 16, 188 1, to Ida Asenath, daughter of Jo- 
siah Dunn of Lewiston. She died March 2, 1883, and he was 
again married, Dec. 15, 1884, to Mattie M., daughter of W. B. 
Nutter of Scarboro', Me. No children. 



William Ripley Tillotson, 

Moorhead, Minn. 

Studied law at Hanover, in the office of Hon. Frederick 
Chase [D. C. i860] for three years beginning Sept. 1877, and 
was admitted to the New Hampshire bar on examination, at 
Concord, Sept. 2, 1880. Staid in Hanover till the next spring, 
when he started out to seek his fortune, and in the latter part 
of March, 1881, landed in Moorhead, Minn., where he has since 
remained. Was a clerk in the law office of Burnham [D. C. 
1869] ^ Gould until Jan. i, 1883, when the law firm of Burnham, 
Mills & Tillotson was formed. This firm existed till Jan. i, 1887, 
when Mr. Mills left it to go upon the bench, and the present 
firm name is Burnham & Tillotson. He was appointed, Dec. 
29, 1886, U. S. Commissioner for the District of Minnesota, 
which is his only office of a political nature. His only publica- 
tions are various briefs to be found in the volumes of the Min- 
nesota Reports. Is a member of the Knights of Pythias, has 
filled the highest office in the local lodge, and was a representa- 
tive to the Grand Lodge, Jurisdiction of Minnesota, in Sept. 
1886. In politics a Republican, and an Episcopalian in relig- 
ious preference. At present^ he is unmarried. 

Edgar Andes Twitchell, 

Pence Opera House, Minneapolis, Minn. 

For two years from August 1877 he was a law student in 
the office of Ray, Drew [D. C. 1870] & Jordan, at Lancaster, 
N. H. In the fall of 1879 ^^ removed to the office of Geo. W. 
Cahoon [D. C. 1853], at Lyndon, Vt., and was admitted to the 
Caledonia county bar, Dec. 9, 1879. In April 1880 he migrated 
to Albert Lea, Minn., and opened a law office there May i, con- 
tinuing in practice till Jan. 1882. From March 20, 1882, to 
July of the same year he was a member of the firm of Twitchell 



30 DECENNIAL RECORD 

& Brown [D. C. 1876], in the real estate commission business, in 
Minneapolis, and subsequently in the same business either alone 
or in the firm of Twitchell & Roby till Dec, 3, 1883. At that 
date he abandoned the commission business, and has since been 
very successfully engaged in real estate business with his own 
capital. Has hitherto acted with the Republican party, but has 
of late been somewhat shaken in his allegiance by his sympa- 
thies with the labor and temperance movements. His religious 
views are skeptical. Was married at Lancaster, N. H., July 26, 
1879, to Clara Hall, daughter of Dennis Stanley of Lancaster. 
Has one child, Stanley Andes, born June 25, 1884. 

Herbert Hart Walker, 

99 Nassau St., New York, N. Y. 

Taught some time at Chester, Mass. In the fall of 1878 
was teaching in the Mt. Washington Institute, New York city. 
W^as for some time teacher of languages in the Selleck School, 
Norwalk, Ct., and in the fall of 1880 was reported as a teacher 
at College Point, N. Y. Meanwhile had been studying law in 
the office of Rufus F. Andrews, New York city, and in 1881 
taught in the House of Refuge, in the city, while continuing his 
law studies. Was admitted to the bar in the fall of 1882, and 
has since practiced in New York, for a time in the firm of An- 
drews, Walker & Andrews, but of late alone. A Republican in 
politics. " Religious preferences the same as when in college." 
Unmarried. 

Albert Wallace, 

Rochester, N. H. 

Has been since graduation in the employ of E. G. & E. 
Wallace, manufacturers of leather, boots, and shoes, at Roches- 
ter ; the first three years worked at the bench, then in the office 
a few years, and now has charge of one of the two shops devoted 
to shoe manufacturing. Is also treasurer of the Rochester Aque- 
duct and Water Co. Is a member of the Humane Lodge, ^fas- 
ter Masons, and of Temple Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. In 
politics a Republican, and in religion inclined to Universalism. 
Was married. May 23, 1883, to Rosalie Kimball, daughter of 
Martin L. Burr of Rochester. No children. 



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Sumner Wallace, 

Rochester, N. H. 

After graduation he worked for about three months in the 
Rochester Savings Bank, and since has been in the shoe and 
leather business with E. G. & E. Wallace, except for about a 
year ending in July 1883, when he was engaged in the manufac- 
ture of boots and shoes in the firm of Duntley & Wallace. Was 
elected supervisor of registration in 1878, and was a member of 
the Legislature of 1885. Chosen president of the Rochester 
Loan and Banking Co. in August 1886, and one of the trustees 
of Rochester Savings Bank in Sept. 1886. Is a Chapter Mason, 
and an Odd Fellow, in the latter organization having been 
through the principal chairs. Has always been a Republican, 
and is strongly inclined to the Universalist faith. Was married, 
Jan. 30, 1885, at Farmington, N. H., to Harriet Zerega, daughter 
of Ellison O. Curtis of Farmington. A son, Scott, was born 
July 12, 1886. 

Charles Andrew Willard, 

'63 Loan and Trust Co.'s Building, Minneapolis, Minn. 

Studied law with A. E. Rankin, St. Johnsbury, Vt., from 
July 4, 1877, ^^^ was admitted to the bar of Caledonia county, 
July 2, 1878. Was a member of Boston University School of 
Law for one year, graduating there in June 1879. He practiced 
at St. Johnsbury to Jan. i, 1881, serving also as clerk to the 
Commissioners on the Revision of the Laws of Vermont from 
Feb. to June, 1880. Was then librarian of the St. Johnsbury 
Athenaeum from Jan. i, 1881, to April i, 1882, and then entered 
upon legal practice in St. Paul, Minn., in partnership with Willis, 
under the firm name of Willis & Willard. The firm was dis- 
solved Oct. I, 1884, and from that date till April i, 1885, he 
has practiced alone in St. Paul. Since the last date he has been 
a member of the law firm of Gilfillan, Belden & Willard, in Min- 
neapolis. Republican ; Episcopalian ; unmarried. 

John Willey Willis, 
National German American Bank Building, St. Paul, Minn. 
Read law from graduation in the office of Gilman & Clough, 
in St. Paul, and also taught Latin in the city High School for 



32 DECENNIAL RECORD 

the school year 1878-9. Was admitted to the Minnesota bar 
Oct. 18, 1879, and has since been in active practice in St. Paul. 
Was in partnership with Willard from April i, 1882, to Oct. i, 
1884, but otherwise has been alone. Is a member of the city 
Board of Education. Is actively engaged in politics from a Dem- 
ocratic standpoint, has been a member of the State Central Com- 
mittee, and was the nominee of the party for the office of KX.- 
torney General of the state at the election of 1883. Is a com- 
municant of the Protestant Episcopal church. Was married, 
May 18, 1882, to Eleanor R. Forsyth of St. Paul. They have no 

children. 

John Cooper Winslow, 

Pasadena, Cal. 

Read law in his father's office, at Watertown, N. Y., from 
graduation, and was admitted to the bar May i, 1879. Entered 
into partnership with his father on the 17th of that month, and 
there remained until his appointment, Jan. i, 1880, to the head 
clerkship in the office of the Attorney General of New York, at 
Albany. Was visited with a severe lung trouble in the early 
winter of 1882-3, and spent the latter part of the winter in Flor- 
ida. Returned the first of May, and resumed work at Albany, 
being obliged to give up again, however, the last of June. He 
went at once into the Adirondack region, and remained there 
for some time, with apparent good results. Afterwards made 
trial of Mexico and New Mexico as a health resort, and some 
two years since located in the practice of law at Pasadena, Cal., 
well known for its delightful climate. Have not heard from him 
for a year past, and do not know the present condition of his 
health. Was married. May 13, 1880, to Isabel Bates of Syra- 
cuse, N. Y. They have no children. 



NON-GRADUATES. 



William Silas Bailev, 
East Hard wick, Vt. 
Left the class at the close of our freshman year, and soon 
after entered Williams College, where he was connected with 



OF DARTMOUTH '77. 33 

the class of '78. Left during his senior year, and did not grad- 
uate. Was for some time employed as clerk in a furniture es- 
tablishment at East Cambridge, Mass., and in 1882 was reported 
as a commission merchant in Boston, in the firm of Williams, 
Bailey & Co. Has been at East Hardwick, Vt., since the spring 
of 1886, in charge of a stock farm, raising blooded horses. Was 
married, Oct. 10, 1882, to F. M. Martin of Peacham, Vt. A 
newspaper item gives the birth of a daughter, Feb. 7, 1887 ; 
whether there are other children is unknown to the Secretary. 

WoosTER Orlin Ball, 

Watertown, N. Y. 

Left the class at the close of sophomore year. For one 
year was in his father's employ, engaged in buying produce, and 
since that time, till Jan. 12, 1887, was in partnership with him in 
the general produce business, under the firm name of H. M. Ball 
& Son. Since the last date he has been in the hardware busi- 
ness, as junior member of the firm of W. W. Conde & Co. Since 
Oct. I, 1884, has also been interested in the manufacture of 
carriage gearing and carriage wood-work, as secretary and treas- 
urer of the Maud S. Gear Company. Was married, June 23, 
i88t, to Kate L., daughter of George Baker of Chicago, 111. 
They have one daughter, born Nov. 2, 1886. 

John [ames Berry, 
Portsmouth, N. H. 

Left college sophomore fall. Spent the year 1876-7 in 
Harvard Medical School, and then completed his medical stud- 
ies at the University of New York, where he graduated Feb. 19, 
1878. From October 1877 to October 1878 he was a student 
and assistant of Dr. G. W. Howe, visiting surgeon to Charity 
Hospital, Blackwell's Island, and to St. Francis' Hospital, New 
York city. From Oct. i, 1878, to April i, 1879, he was assist- 
ant surgeon in the New York Hospital, House of Relief; from 
the last date till May 26, 1879, in St. Francis' Hospital, and then 
in the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled till April i, i88i. 
He then spent several months in European travel. Opened 
practice at Fall River, Mass., in October 1881, and remained 
3 



34 DECENNIAL RECORD 

there about eight months. In 1882 located at South Norwalk, 
Ct., and in 1885 removed to Portsmouth, N. H., his present lo- 
cation. Member of New Hampshire Medical Society, Ameri- 
can Public Health Association, American Medical Association, 
one of the secretaries in the Section of Anatomy of the Interna- 
tional Medical Congress, which meets in Washington, D. C, in 
September 1887, and president of the Portsmouth Medical As- 
sociation. Has contributed various articles on surgical and an- 
atomical subjects to the Medical Record^ ]Sew England Medical 
Monthly^ Annals of Anatomy and Surgery^ Medical Register, Mary- 
land Medical Journal, and Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. 
Is the author of an article on " Diseases of the Joints," printed 
in the Transactions of the Connecticut Medical Society, and of two 
leading articles for the Medical History of Connecticut, now in 
press. An essay entitled, How can the Mortality of Consumption be 
reduced, read before a sanitary convention in Manchester, N. H., 
Jan. 26, 1887, has been printed in pamphlet form (pp. 15). Is 
an attendant at an Episcopal church. Has no politics to report. 
Was married, Oct. 26, 1 881, to Fannie Emily, daughter of George 
Craus of New York city. They have one daughter, Ida Mar- 
guerite, born Aug. 13, 1882. 

Francis Beattie Brewer, Jr., 

Ottawa Station, Mich. 

Left the class at the end of freshman year and entered Yale 
College. After one term there he left on account of ill health. 
In the spring of 1875 he was employed for a few months in a 
wholesale hardware store in Chicago. From the fall of 1875 till 
the summer of 1877 he was connected with the Erie Morning 
Dispatch, Erie, Pa., and from November 1877 to January 1878 
was in the employ of the Erie Publishing Co. At the last date 
became a member of the firm of Allen & Brewer, book-sellers, 
at Erie. In April 1880 bought out his partner's share of the 
business, and conducted it alone till April 1882. Since 1882 
has been most of the time in Michigan, engaged in reclaiming 
and improving some wild land, of which he has about 5,000 
acres for sale, and expects to remain there. Is a Republican 
and a Methodist ; unmarried. 



OF DAR TMO UTH '77. 35 

Wilbur Franklin Bryant, 

West Point, Cuming Co., Neb. 

Left the class at the close of freshman year, and read law 
at Lebanon, N. H., in the office of John L. Spring, from Dec. 6, 
1874, to Aug. 29, 1876. Then he went to Green Island, Neb., 
and taught there five months through the winter of 1876-7. 
Having finished his law studies with John R. Gamble of Yank- 
ton, Dak., he was admitted to the bar April 17, 1877, and prac- 
ticed there a few weeks. From June 1877 to Jan. 23, 1884, he 
practiced at St. Helena, Neb., and from the last date to the next 
December at Aten, Neb. Since this time he has been located 
at West Point, Neb. In 1877 was chosen Justice of the Peace, 
but refused to qualify; in 1878 declined an appointment as 
county judge for Cedar county ; was county attorney for some 
time from Nov. 1879 5 ^"^^ commissioned postmaster at St. He- 
lena, April 27, 1881, and held the office for three years ; in Nov. 
1882 was elected District Attorney for the Sixth District of Ne- 
braska, including the whole northern portion of the state, from 
Wyoming to Iowa, the term being from Jan. i, 1883, to Jan. i, 
1885 5 i^ Nov. 1885 was elected Judge of the County Court of 
Cuming county, and entered upon the duties of the office Jan. 7, 
1886. A political speech of his has been issued in pamphlet 
form, and he is the author of a book entitled The Blood of Abel 
(copyright, 1887, pp. 169), which is a review of the conduct €^ 
President Cleveland and Secretary Bayard in the affair of LoiliS 
Riel ; has also contributed two articles to the Bible Examiner^ eti^ 
titled. The Scripture Unscathed. Is a member of the Catholic 
Knights of America, a Republican, and a member of the Roman 
Catholic Church. Was married, at Springfield, Dak., Oct. i, 
188 1, to Katy, daughter of Stephen P. Saunders. They have 
two daus^hters, Ita, born Tune 16, 1884, and Ethel, born Mav-i;, 

1886. , . ■ r % f4- 

Addison Edward Cudwq^j:!^ ^p,^.^ loorioa srll 

South Londonderry, Vt. ,sni:teB3 :t£ fcorfoS 

Left the class at the end of the first terni^^febpito^tb'3^e^*ry 

Taught in the spring of 1875 ^^ Bradford, Ni H^.^,'an^-ln tbe^i^ 

suing fall and winter at Marlow, N. H. He^fiifetfS^ig-^rifer^ 

college in the class of '78, remaining with thetb,s4kb^e^^, oriP;^ 



36 ■ DECENNIAL RECORD 

till the end of the year. Taught at Weston, Vt., in the winter 
of 1876-7, and then began the study of law with James L. Mar- 
tin, at South Londonderry, Vt. Taught at Mechanicsville, Vt., 
in the winter of 1877-8. Was admitted to the Windham county 
bar, at Newfane, Vt., Sept. 12, 1879, and has since practiced at 
South Londonderry, being for a time in partnership with Hon. J. 
L. Martin, and since alone. Represented the town in the Leg- 
islature of 1884, serving on the Committee on Education. A Re- 
publican in politics. Was married, April 15, 1880, to Mary E. 
Rogers of West Hebron, N. Y. Their children are Clyde Earl, 
born Feb. 6, 1881, and Ina Sara, born June 19, 1882. 

William Henry Cummings, 
Thetford, Vt. 
Left the class in the fall of sophomore year, and then taught 
at Chelsea, Vt., till the spring of 1876. In the following fall he 
returned to college and entered the class of '79, with which class 
he graduated. Was then for five years principal of Bradford 
(Vt.) Academy, and since of Thetford Academy. In politics, he 
is a Republican, with Prohibitory leanings. Is a member of the 
Congregational church at Thetford, and was deacon of the church 
^I^&dford during the last few months of his residence there. 
^^ "X^atxied, Nov. 25, 1879, to JuUa Vincent, daughter of Alon- 
^ : JJ^bP<§^^^i§ of Chelsea, Vt. Julia Victoria, born April 26, 
j^jSaJ l^ceibl^jd ^he class cup of '79 ; a twin daughter lived but 

oilorliBO 9fl; io -i William Adams Dresser, 
nr.mo5I ;.dJ >o fs^j^ Robert St., St. Paul, Minn. 

■^ ■ ?tt t'he^'close St' freshman year transferred his relations to 
T/£4 Ysal^ vr-jaDni^j^^^^ he graduated with the class of '77. 




hs at his home at Castine, Me., occupied 
with teaching private pupils, and from March 1878 to the close of 
the school year \lfei!s teacher of languages in the State Normal 
School at Castine. At this time his health gave way, and he 
A^f^nt s^ro-ad ixx\^% summer of '78, remaining three years. Spent 
n^xDst of th^ . tim»' in Italy, France, Switzerland, and Austria, 
$^^dily r^g^ini^ig health, and studying languages, literature, and 
^tl> Spjent the first year after returning from Europe in busi- 



OF DARTMOUTH '77. 37 

ness with his father, at Castine, but found the New England cli- 
mate unfavorable, and went to St. Paul, Minn., in the fall of '82. 
Was occupied for the following three years with teaching French, 
Italian, Greek, and Latin, and with real estate investments. 
From the fall of '85 to August 1886 was a partner in a decorat- 
ing and furnishing house, and since that date has been in his 
present business of investment securities, mortgages, and real 
estate. Declined an offer, last December, of the chair of Mod- 
ern Languages in MacAlester College, St. Paul. In politics is 
a very independent Republican ; a member of a Congregational 
church. " Neither married nor have any expectation in that di- 
rection." 

Brayton Allen Field, 

Watertown, N. Y. 
Left the class at the end of sophomore year from ill health, 
and for the next year and two-thirds was engaged in recruiting. 
Taught at home (East Hounsfield, N. Y.) in the winter of 1876- 
7, and in the spring of '77 returned to college, entering the class 
of '78, and graduated with that class. Was then for one year 
principal of Proctor Academy, Andover, N. H. In Aug. 1879 
entered the law office of O'Brien & Emerson, Watertown, N, Y. 
Was also for the year 1879-80 principal of one of the city gram- 
mar schools, continuing his law studies meanwhile. In June 
1880 his health had become so broken down that he was obliged 
to give up study and teaching, and spent the next three years on 
his father's farm. In Dec. 1883 he resumed his law studies in 
the same office with regained health, and was admitted to the 
bar of New York, at Utica, April 21, 1886. Remained with the 
same firm till December, and then, on its dissolution, opened an 
office with E. C. Emerson, the former junior partner. Is a Re- 
publican, and a member of a Christian church. Was married, 
April 27, 1 88 1, to Nettie Elizabeth, daughter of Judge William 
C. Thompson of Watertown. Their children are Nellie Louise, 
born Dec. 8, 1884, and Allan Thompson, born June 18, 1886. 

Heman Allen Halsted, 

Hamburgh, N. J. 
Left the class freshman fall, and in the fall of 187 :}. returned, 
entering the class of '78, but remained only a few weeks. Taught 



3^ DECENNIAL RECORD 

for the rest of the year at Windham, N. J. Subsequently read 
law in New York city, in the office of C. & N. D. Lawton, and 
later with C. A. Runk. From 1879 to 1881 he was principal of 
the Deckertown, N. J., Public Schools, and was then for a time 
traveling agent for the Union Publishing House of New York. 
From 1882 to 1884 he practiced law at Deckertown, N. J., and 
since at Hamburgh, N. J. Is president of the Eureka Lodge of 
Knights and Ladies of the Golden Star. In politics a Republi- 
can. A communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church, and 
a lay reader of the diocese of Newark. Was married, Dec. 26, 
1883, to Sarah Frances, daughter of John B. Thompson of Deck- 
ertown. Their children are: Ernest Allen, born Oct. 4, 1884; 
Tracy Lee, born March 16, 1886; May, born May 20, 1887. 



Charles Henry Webster Howe, son of Benjamin Darwin 
and Eliza (Hitchcock) Howe, was born at Hanover, N. H., June 

24, 1856. His father was a bookbinder, and died at Hanover 
in 1867. He fitted for college at Norwich Academy, and left 
the class in the winter of sophomore year, from ill health. His 
health having considerably improved, in the fall of 1876 he re- 
sumed his studies in the class of '78, and graduated with that 
class. He then engaged in the study of medicine at Hanover, 
and would have taken his degree in June 1881. The last years 
of his life were a continual struggle with consumption, and he 
failed rapidly after an attack of acute bronchitis, in December 
1880. In the February following he was taken to Aiken, S. C, 
but lost strength continually while there, and remained but four 
weeks Returning from the South, he went no farther than New 
York, where the last three weeks of his life were passed, at the 
Fifth Avenue Hotel, and where he died on the night of April 

25, 188 1. The funeral services were held at Hanover on the 
29th, and his body lies buried in the familiar cemetery there. 
He was a member of the College church, and his death is said 
to have been unusually happy and peaceful. 



OF DAR TMO UTH '77. 39 

Louis Oilman Hoyt, 

Kingston, N. H. 

Left the class freshman spring, and the next fall taught at 
Osterville, Mass. Read law at Exeter, N. H., with W. W. Stick- 
ney [D. C. 1823], and was admitted to the bar Jan. 14, 1878. 
Remained at Exeter till the May following, when he opened an 
office at Kingston, N. H., where he has since remained. Has 
not been heard from of late. Was unmarried at last accounts. 

John HalX Ives, 

206 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 

He left the class during the spring of freshman year, and is 
said to have been engaged in stenography for a time. One brief 
note in 1881 comprises the extent of his communications to the 
Secretary. At that time he was practicing law in New York 
city, and is understood to be still in the same place and occupa- 
tion. 

James Davidson Maxwell, son of John and Elizabeth 
(Davidson) Maxwell, was born at Cohoes, N. Y., Sept. 3, 185 1. 
His parents were natives of Scotland, and his home from early 
youth was at Amsterdam, N. Y., where his father was engaged 
in manufacturing. In 1870 he entered Cornell University, and 
remained there about two years, in a scientific course. He left 
Dartmouth before the end of our first term, and went into busi- 
ness with his father. In 1877 he engaged in the manufacture of 
hosiery with his brother, at Amsterdam, and was thereafter so 
engaged. He twice visited Europe, once in 1877, and again in 
1880, on his bridal tour. He was married, Sept. i, 1880, to Hat- 
tie H., daughter of Charles M. Morrell of Amsterdam, and a 
daughter was born to them Nov. i, 1881. While on his way 
home from New York city, Nov. 12, 1882, he was injured by a 
railway collision at Peekskill, N. Y., and died at Peekskill on 
the 27th of that month, after intense and protracted suffering. 
Maxwell First was with us but a short time, but our associations 
with him were of the pleasantest, and he is sure of an abiding 
place in our memory. 



40 DECENNIAL RECORD 

William Gray Maxwell, 

Amsterdam, N. Y. 

Left the class during the first term of freshman year, and 
went into hosiery manufacturing at Amsterdam. While engaged 
in business he devoted some time to the study of law, spending 
the year 1876-7 in Harvard Law School. Spent some months 
in European travel in 1877, and again in 1880. In 1885 he re- 
tired from manufacturing, the firm at that time employing some 
three hundred hands, and turning out over $50,000 worth of 
goods yearly. He then went into the practice of law in part- 
nership with an older brother in New York city, residing at 
Yonkers. They have lately removed their office to Amsterdam, 
but expect to return to New York for a permanent location. 
Several articles from his pen, chiefly on economical or philosoph- 
ical subjects, have been published in monthly magazines. In 
connection with his brother, he published, in 1886, a law book 
in popular form entitled The Rights and Obligations of Marriage. 
Is a Republican ; without religious preference ; unmarried. 

WiNFiELD Scott Montgomery, 
19 1 2 Eleventh St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 

Left the class at the close of soi-'homore year, taught for a 
year in Washington, D. C, and then returned to college, gradu- 
ating with the class of '78. Taught a Graded School at Anacos- 
tia, D. C., in the fall of 1878, and then from Dec. 1878 till 1882 
was Professor of Ancient Languages in Alcorn University, Rod- 
ney, Miss. Since 1882 he has been one of the supervising prin- 
cipals of the public schools of the District of Columbia. Is one 
of the vice-presidents of the American Institute of Instruction 
for the present year. Is a Republican in politics, and a mem- 
ber of a Baptist church. Was married at Columbia, S. C, Aug. 
9, 1883, to Emma Rosa, daughter of Charles M. Wilder of Co- 
lumbia. Wilder Percival was born May 26, 1884, and Marcia, 
April 13, 18&7.I 

William Henry Moore, 
Portsmouth, N. H. 

Left college at the Thanksgiving recess, freshman fall, and 
taught in the following winter. Was employed as a clerk the 



OF BAR TMO UTH 'yj. 41 

greater part of the year 1874. In 1875 returned to Portsmouth, 
and began the study of law with James D. Butler, so continuing 
until Dec, 16, 1875, when he entered the U. S. Navy, as a yeo- 
man on board the U. S. S. Marion. Sailed from Portsmouth, 
Jan. 24, 1876, and after six months in the North Atlantic and 
the Gulf of Mexico, proceeded to the Mediterranean, and was 
discharged at his own request, Jan. 7, 1877, at Ville Franche sur 
Mer, in Southeastern France. Then made a trip through France 
and England, and in the latter part of July, at Liverpool, shipped 
on board the bark Memory, for Balize, British Honduras, re- 
turning to Liverpool in November. Thence went to Glasgow, 
and there, in February 1878, shipped on board the American 
bark Devonshire for Buenos Ayres. x\rrived at the latter city 
in April, and proceeded down the coast of Patagonia for a load 
of guano under papers issued by the Argentine Republic. While 
taking in guano at an island claimed both by the Argentine Re- 
public and Chili, a Chilian cruiser in October seized the bark as 
a prize, and took her to Punta Arenas, in the Straits of Magel- 
lan. At that place he left the bark, and remained there in vari- 
ous occupations till January 1880, when he shipped on board the 
British schooner Felis, and went to the Falkland Islands. There, 
in June 1880, he shipped once more on board the U. S. S. Mar- 
ion, this time as schoolmaster, the steamer then being assigned 
to the South Atlantic station In February 1882 was appointed 
apothecary, and on the return of the steamer to Portsmouth, 
Dec. 6, 1882, he left the service, and has remained at that place 
ever since. Studied medicine for a time and did considerable 
private tutoring. In July 1885 became local editor of the Ports- 
mouth Journal, and since July 1886 has been a member of the 
regular editorial staff of that paper. Has also been for some 
time engaged in insurance business, and since July 1886 has 
been of the firm of Ilsley & Moore, fire, life, and accident insur- 
ance agents and brokers. Is an Independent Republican, " but 
no Mugwump." In religion is " thoroughly liberal, and inclined 
to be agnostic." Was married, Jan. 5, 1887, to Arabel B., 
daughter of the late James W. Bowles of Portsmouth. 



42 DECENNIAL RECORD 

Albert Hayes Morton, 
6 Mulberry St., Providence, R. I. 

Left college at the end of junior year, and from July 31, 
1876, to February 1879 worked as machinist in the machine shop 
of the Salmon Falls Manufacturing Co., at Salmon Falls, N. H. 
Then went to Harrisburg, Texas, and worked in the same ca- 
pacity in the shops of the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio 
R. R. Left there in May 1879, and went to Milwaukee, Wis., 
and engaged with E. P. AUis & Co., but in response to a tele- 
gram returned to Salmon Falls to take charge of building new 
machinery for the Salmon Falls Manufacturing Co., and worked 
there as machinist from June 1879 ^^ J^^- ^' 1880. At that date 
was appointed master mechanic, and remained there m that ca- 
pacity till Feb. 28, 1883. From March i, 1883, to May 1886, he 
was at Lowell, Mass., in the employ of the Whitehead & Ather- 
ton Machine Co., as head draughtsman. Since May 26, 1886, 
he has been draughtsman for the Brown & Sharpe Manufactur- 
ing Co., Providence, R. L, being their leading designer of ma- 
chinery. Is a Mason, and has held the offices of J. W., S. W., 
and J. D. A Republican in politics, and in religion an Agnos- 
tic. Was married, Feb. 14, 188 1, to Jessie F., daughter of E. S. 
Nowell of Salmon Falls. They have one child, Albert Nowell, 
born March 9, 1882. 

Edward Arthur Murdock, 

Spencer, Mass. 

Left college at the close of sophomore year, and spent the 
next three years in the Boston University School of Medicine, 
from which he graduated March 6, 1878. He practiced at Wa- 
tertown, Mass., from April i, 1878, to March i, 1883, and since 
the last date at Spencer, Mass. Is a member of the Massachu- 
setts, Worcester County, and Western Massachusetts Homeo- 
pathic Medical Societies, having been Vice-President of the sec- 
ond ; also of the Royal Arcanum (medical examiner), American 
Legion of Honor, Home Circle, and Golden Rule Alliance (med- 
ical examiner). Is a Republican, and a member of a Congrega- 
tional church. Was married at Groton, Mass., July 24, 1879, to 
Mary P., daughter of W. C. Turner of Groton. Their children 



OF DARTMOUTH 'yy. 43 

are Susie Mary, born Jan. i8, 1881, and Arthur Edward, born 
Feb. 5, 1885. 

Frank William Patten, 

Hopkinton, Mass. 

Left college at the end of freshman year, and in the fall en- 
suing began the study of medicine with Dr. W. W. Wilkins of 
Manchester, N. H. Attended lectures at the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons, New York, during the sessions of 1875-6 
and 1876-7, graduating there March i, 1877. After spending 
some time there in special study, he returned to Manchester, 
and remained in the office of Dr. Thomas Wheat through the 
summer. In Oct. 1877 he settled in practice at Hopkinton, 
Mass., where he still remains. Was school committee in 1882 
and '3, and health officer three years. Is a member of the Free 
Masons, Knights of Honor, and the Thurber Medical Society, 
and has held various offices in each. Is a Republican, and a 
member and treasurer of the First Congregational church of 
Hopkinton. Was married, Sept. 20, 1876, to Harriette Eliza- 
beth, daughter of William Bailey of Manchester. Their chil- 
dren are: William Everett, born Aug. 16, 1877; Arthur How- 
ard, born March 17, 1879; Clarence Wesley, born March 8, 
1881 ; Bertha Alice, born July 24, 1884. 

Robert Allen Ray, 

Concord, N. H. 

Left college at the end of freshman year, and taught the 
High School at Townsend, Mass., during the next year. In the 
spring of 1875 he began the study of law at Concord in the of- 
fice of Sargent [D. C. 1840] & Chase [C. S. D. 1858], and was 
admitted to the New Hampshire bar April 23, 1878. Mean- 
while he taught as assistant in the Concord High School from 
Sept. 1876 to Sept. 1878. In Sept. 1878 he began practice at 
Concord in the firm of Ray & Walker, and so remains. Has 
been at work for two years on Ray & Walker's Book of New 
Hampshire Citations, under a contract with the state of New 
Hampshire. Was elected city solicitor, Nov. 1880, and held the 
office by re-elections till Feb. 1885. Was a member of the Leg- 
islature from Ward 6, Concord, in 1885, and served-on the Com' 



44 DECENNIAL RECORD 

mittee on Railroads. In April 1887 was appointed by Gov. Cur- 
rier Associate Justice of the Police Court of Concord. Is a Re- 
publican, and a member of a Baptist church Was married, Jan. 
18, 1881, to H. Annie, daughter of Oliver Ballou of Concord.. 
A daughter, Agnes H., was born March r8, 1883. 

William Henry Ray, 
Corner 57th St. and Monroe Ave., Chicago, 111. 

Left the class at the end of junior year, and after acting as 
principal of the Norwich (Vt.) Academy for one year, returned to 
college, and took his senior year and graduated with '78. From 
Sept. 1878 till Jan. 1881 he was principal of McCoUom Institute. 
Mt. Vernon, N. H. ; from Jan. to July, 1881, sub-master of Gram- 
mar School No. 2, Yonkers, N. Y. ; from July 1881 to July 1883 
superintendent of schools at Waukegan, 111. ; and since July 
1883 principal of the Hyde Park High School, within the city 
of Chicago. Since 1882 he has also served by appointment of 
the State Superintendent as one of the institute conductors of 
the state. For one 3^ear (i 880-1) he was town superintendent, 
at Mt. Vernon. An article entitled Russia in Asia, in the Atlan- 
tic Monthly for March 1887, is from his pen ; has also been a fre- 
quent contributor to professional periodicals, and the author of 
occasional lectures. Is a member of the Illinois State Teach- 
ers' Association (its first Vice-President for 1885), Society of 
Illinois Principals (chairman of the Executive Committee for 
1885-6), Northern Illinois Teachers' Association (Secretary for 
1884-6), Society of High School Teachers of Illinois (Vice-Pres- 
ident for 1886-7), Chicago Institute of Education, Northwestern 
Association of High School Teachers (President for 1887-8), 
and also of the Chicago Literary Club ; is also Secretary of the 
National Educational Exposition, held in Chicago, July 1887, in 
connection with the National Educational Association. Usually 
acts with the Republican party. Is a member of the Frst Pres- 
byterian church of Hyde Park, member of its music committee 
and assistant superintendent of its Sunday-School. Was mar- 
ried at Norwich, Vt., June 12, 1880, to Martha Hunt, daughter 
of Henry Hutchinson of Norwich. A son, Duncan, was born, 
April 17, 1884, and died Aug. 30, 1885. 



OF DARTMOUTH '77. 45 

Frank Sumner Rogers, 

Troy, Vt. 

Left the class at the close of sophomore year, and returned 
to college in the spring of 1877, entering the class of '78, with 
"which class he graduated. In the fall of 1878 he taught at Troy, 
Vt., and then began the study of law at that place, in the office 
-of H. E. Powell, continuing it later with P. M. Gleed of Morris- 
ville, Vt. Is now practicing at Troy, and is believed to have 
been there most, if not all, the time since his admission to the 
bar. He is never induced to report. Was married at Troy, 
April II, 1882, to Alice Aiken of Jay, Vt, and is said to have 
three children. 



Albert Parker Sanborn, son of David and Mary Jane 
(Smith) Sanborn, was born at Lake Village, N. H., Nov. 17, 
1855. His father was a molder in an iron foundry. He fitted 
for college at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary, at Til- 
ton. He left college at the end of the first term of sophomore 
year on account of ill health, and died at his home at Lake Village, 
Aug. 20, 1876, just before the re-assembling of the class at the 
beginning of senior year. Atkinson was present at the funeral. 
Sanborn was a member of the Free Baptist church at Lake Vil- 
lage. This death was the only one occurring in the class during 
our college course. 



Edwin Webster Sanborn, 

32 Nassau St., New York, N. Y. 

Left the class at the end of sophomore year, and after a 
year's absence from college entered the class of '78, with which 
class he graduated. Studied law at Columbia Law School and 
in the office of Rufus F. Andrews, New York, one year, and 
was then for two years teacher of Latin and Greek in the High 
School of St. Paul, Minn. In the fall of 1881 he resumed his 
law studies in New York, was admitted to the bar in January 
1882, and soon after opened an office there. Since May i, 1884, 
has been a member of the law firm of Clark & Sanborn, at the 



46 DECENNIAL RECORD 

above address. Politically, he is a Mugwump. As yet unmar- 
ried. 

Isaac S Schultz, 

Miles City, Montana. 

Left college in November of sophomore year on account of 
ill health. In the following winter he taught four months at El- 
laville. Pa., and was then, from April to September, 1875, on 
his father's farm at Hereford, Pa. From the last date to Feb. 
1879 he was engaged in orange growing at Fort Mason, Orange 
Co., Fla., but did not find the climate suited to his health, and 
returned to Pennsylvania. In the winter of 1879-80 he taught 
the Schultzville school, in Colebrookdale, Pa., and then, in April, 
engaged in farm work in Kane County, 111., for the benefit of 
his health, remaining there till March 1881. For the next year 
he taught at Bordeaux, Wyoming, and spent the summer of '82 
in Florida, looking after his orange grove, which he had still re- 
tained. Since October 1882 he has been located in Montana, 
on a sheep ranch. The Secretary has not heard from him di- 
rectly for several years, but thinks his address is still as above. 

William James Shepard, 
Watertown, N. Y. 
Left Dartmouth at the end of sophomore year, and entered 
Wesleyan University, remaining there but one term. For a time 
he studied law at Watertown, N. Y., and was clerk of the Sen- 
ate Committee on Privileges and Elections, at Albany, during the 
session of 1878. From Feb. 18, 1879, till April i, 1884, he held 
the office of City Chamberlain of Watertown, receiving five an- 
nual elections, but being finally defeated by a political overturn 
in the city. Immediately on retiring from this position he be- 
came a member of the firm of Ingalls, Shepard & Dewey, pub- 
lishers of The Watertown Post^ a weekly newspaper, continuing 
in this business till Jan. 19, 1886. For about six months end- 
ing with Jan. 1886 the firm also published a daily, the Water- 
town Daily Republican. For some time following he was in the 
employ of a New York firm in the preparation of a county atlas. 
Since Feb. i, 1887, he has been employed as special agent of 
the Watertown Steam Engine Co., this position promising to be 



OF DAR TMO UTH 'jy. 47 

permanent. Is a member of the city police commission for four 
years from May i, 1885. Is an Odd Fellow, having filled all 
the chairs in the subordinate lodge, and having been trustee and 
proxy delegate to the grand lodge. A Republican in politics, 
and a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church. Was, 
married, Feb. 13, 1884, to Lydia Margaret, daughter of Azariah 
Nellis of Watertown. Frieda Margaret was born Sept. 6, 1885, 
and died Sept. 11, 1885; Helen Josephine was born Sept. 2,, 
1886. 

Warrington Somers, 
Auburn, N. Y. 

Left college sophomore fall, and taught during the follow- 
ing winter at Peacham, Vt. For one year from the fall of 1875 
he was principal of the High School at Warrensburg, N. Y., and 
of the Union School at Greenwich, N. Y., from 1876 to 1882. 
He was then teaching for a short time at Wellsville, N. Y., and 
has been for the last four years and a half assistant principal of 
the High School at Auburn, N. Y. He received the honorary 
degree of Master of Arts in 1877 from some college in the state: 
of New York. Was married, Feb. 19, 1875, to Mary A., daugh- 
ter of Rev. Leviny H. Hooker of Peacham, Vt. Is said to have 
a number of children. Has never made a direct report, and the 
above information has been obtained from other sources. 

Martin Luther Stimson, 

Tientsin, China. 

Left the class at the end of sophomore year, and after a 
year's absence entered the class of '78, with which class he 
graduated. He then spent three years in Oberlin Theological 
Seminary, graduating there in June 1881. Having been accept- 
ed for missionary service by the American Board, he was or- 
dained at Oberlin, and assigned to a new mission in the prov- 
ince of Shanse, China. Sailed from San Francisco, Sept. 6, 
1 88 1, and arrived at Fungchow, near Peking, Oct. 21. In June 
following, he proceeded to his mission field, arriving at T'ai Yuan 
Fu July 4. Removed in October 1883 to Chieh Hsiee Hsien, 
in April 1884 to T'aiku Hsien, and in December 1886 to Feu 
Chow Fu, where he now remains, the post-office address of the: 



48 , DECENNIAL RECORD 

mission, however, being as above. Has been secretary of the 
mission from its organization, and treasurer for the last year. 
In politics would call himself a Prohibitionist, and in religion a 
Congregationalist — " stiff, old-fashioned New England ortho- 
dox." Was married at Oberlin, O., July 6, 1881, to Emily Brooks, 
daughter of Rev. Heman B. Hall, the lady being a graduate of 
Oberlin in 1881. Their children are as follows : Leonard Mar- 
tin, born April 15, 1882, died Feb. 14, 1884; James Palmer 
Stone, born July 5, 1883 ; Edith May, born April i, 1886. 

John Quincy Stone, 
Northampton, Mass. 
Left college freshman winter, and taught that winter at 
Groton, Mass. From September 1874 to June 1875 ^^ studied 
medicine with Dr. Norman Smith of Groton, from the latter date 
to the following December canvassed for the Boston Cultivator^ 
and then taught at Shirley, Mass., till March 1876. From May 
to Jul}^ of that year he made collections for the Bosto7i Cultivator^ 
and from December 1876 to March 1877 he taught at Charlton, 
Mass. From March 11, 1877, to April 19, 1879, he was a 
member of the dental firm of Palmer & Stone, at Ayer, Mass. 
From the last date to April i, 1881, he traveled as a dentist 
through Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont, and has since 
been located in practice at Northampton, Mass. Is a Demo- 
crat and a Conglregationalist. . Was married, Nov. 20, 1880, at 
Harvard, Mass., to Sarah D., daughter of Edward Clapp of 
Northampton. A daughter, Estella A., was born Oct. 6, 1881. 

Warren Story, 

San Bernardino, Cal. 

Left college at the end of our first term, and has made the 
Secretary no end of trouble. In the spring of '77 he was said 
to be farming at Dunbarton, N. H., his old home. Afterwards 
he was for some years in San Francisco, Cal., where he was, for 
a time at least, a member of the firm of C. James King of Wil- 
liam & Co., packers and dealers in hermetically sealed goods. 
Since February 1882 he has been at San Bernardino, where he 
appears to have a fruit ranch, and to be largely interested in the 



OF DARTMOUTH'']']. 49 

prevailing land speculations of that section. In December 1886 
the postmaster reported him as engaged in the real estate and 
abstract business. Is married, and has at least one child — a 
daughter, now four years old. 

Arthur French Towne, 
97 Clark St., Chicago, 111. 
Left college freshman fall, and taught that winter at Wal- 
pole, N. H. He then read law one year with J. G. Bellows at 
Walpole, and two years in the Boston University School of Law, 
graduating there in the spring of 1876. He continued his law 
studies in Boston, and was admitted to the bar there Oct. 16, 
1877. Went at once to Chicago, and has since been in practice 
there. A Republican in politics. Not married, so far as re- 
ported. 

Charles Arthur Tucker, 

Norwalk, Ct. 

Left the class freshman fall, returning to college in the fall 
of 1875 to enter the class of '78, with which class he graduated. 
Was cashier in a grocery store at Elizabeth, N. J., from August 
1878 to January 1879. Was then until the following summer as- 
sistant in the public schools of Manchester, Iowa, and then in a 
similar position at Lansing, Iowa, during the school year 1879- 
80. For the year 1880-1 he taught Latin in Lenox College, at 
Hopkinton, Iowa, and since 1881 has been principal of the Cen- 
ter School, at Norwalk, Ct. He is a chronic delinquent in re- 
porting, but it is learned from the '78 class reports that he has 
been assistant superintendent of the Congregational Sunday- 
School at Norwalk and president of the Norwalk Literary Soci- 
ety, that he is now organist at the First Baptist church and is a 
Mason. Was married, Aug. i, 1883, to Carrie M. Quintard of 
Norwalk. 

Henry Lewis Webb, 
Alexandria, Va. 

Left college freshman spring, in consequence of breaking 

his leg while playing foot-ball on the campus. Was then for 

some months at his home, in Manchester, N. H. From Feb. 

1875 ^o May 1876 he was in the employ of a Boston caterer, and 

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then for over a month a waiter at Memorial Hall, Cambridge. 
From July to November, 1876, he worked at the Metropolitan 
Hotel, Boston. He started for Virginia, Nov. 30, with the in- 
tention of teaching, and located at Alexandria. From January 
to May, 1877, he taught at Stewartsville, Bedford Co., Va., in 
the winter of 188 1-2 in Fairfax Co., near Alexandria, in the win- 
ters of '83-4 and '84-5 at Franconia, Fairfax Co., and the win- 
ter of '86-7 at Moorefield, W. Va. In the summer of '77 work- 
ed as waiter at the Pequot Hotel, New London, and at the 
Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga Springs, in the summer of '78 and 
each summer since, except that of '82, which was spent at the 
Prospect House, Shelter Island. During the time not account- 
ed for above, he has been eno-ao:ed in various kinds of labor in 
or near Alexandria, A Republican in politics. Member and 
clerk of the Alfred St. Baptist church of Alexandria. Was mar- 
ried, Sept. Tg, 1878, to Agnes, daughter of Joseph Smith of Al- 
exandria. Their children are : Abbie Stark, born Oct. 8, 1878 ; 
Agnes Maud, born Aug. 2, 1880; Willie Francis, born Dec. 10, 
1882 ; Henry Lewis, Jr., born Nov. 12, 1884. 

William Josiah Willard, 

I>yndonville, Vt. 

Left college sophomore winter from ill health, and soon af- 
ter became a clerk in the office of the Connecticut and Passump- 
sic R. R. Co., at Lyndonville, Vt., remaining there till June i, 
1878. From July 1878 to Dec. 1879 ^^ ^^^ station agent for 
the same company at St. Johnsbury, and at the last date was 
transferred to their general freight office at Lyndonville. Since 
Jan. I, 1883, has been General Freight Agent of the company, 
which has now become the Passumpsic Division of the Boston 
& Lowell. Is a Republican in politics, and liberal in religion. 
Was married, Nov. 9, 1 881, to Martha L., daughter of Charles 
Sanborn of Lyndon, Vt. They have no children. 



CHANDLER SCIENTIFIC DEPARTMENT, 



Arthur Henry Baldwin after graduation was employed 
in surveying mining claims at Deadwood, Dakota, in 1879 was 
assistant engineer of the Homestake Mining Co., at Lead City, 
in 1880 Engineer in Chief of the Bed Rock Flume Co. at Dead- 
wood. In 1882 he returned east as far as St. Louis and entered 
the employ of the Iron Mountain R R., of which road he was 
assistant engineer in 1883. In 1884 he reported as Assistant 
Superintendent of Works in the Mississippi River Improvement 
in Engineering Dept. U. S. Army and is now a civil engineer at 
Winfield, Kans. Married, January 1 1, 1882 to Miss Mary Arthur, 
daughter of Frederick Arthur of Rockerville, Dak. Address, 
Winfield, Kans. 

George William Bartlett has been engaged in railroad- 
ing ever since graduation, and the folio win ?; is a good indication 
of the success he has met with. September 1877, clerk in local 
freight office C. B. & Q. R. R., at Council Bluffs, Iowa ; March 
1879, engineer on double track of N. Y., L. E. & W. R. R., Buf- 
falo, N. Y. November 1879, in office of the Division Superin- 
tendent of same road, at Port Jervis, N. Y. September 1881, 
Supervisor of Track, same road, Ndrrowsburgh, N. Y. May 
1882, Roadmaster sanie road, at Port Jc^rvis, N. Y. February 
1886, Superintendent Rochester Division, snme road, at Roch- 
ester, N. Y. February 1887, Superintendent Western Division 
N. Y., P. & O. R. R., which is leased b- the N. Y., L. E. & W. 
R. R. Married, June 24, 1883, to Miss Ju.iette Thomas, daughter 
of B. Thomas, Esq., of Port Jervis at the residence of the 
bride's uncle, Richard Thomas, Columbus, Ohio. Has two 
children, Francis Harris, born at Port Jervis, January 24, 1885, 
and Robert Duncan, born at Rochester, Nov. 12, 1886. He is 
a Blaine Republican. Address, Rochester, N. Y. 

George Franklin Canis has devoted himself almost con- 
tinuously to journalism since graduation, having been connected 



52 DECENNIAL RECORD 

with papers in Baltimore, Md., Boston, Mass., Omaha, Neb., 
and New York city, besides being editor of the Las Vegas (N. 
M.) Gazette and proprietor of the News and Press of Cimarron, 
and the News and Press of Raton, New Mexico. While in the 
west was engaged in cattle, mining, and land. Postmaster at 
Deming, N. M., about one year, a member of the Republican 
Territorial Committee, and Secretary Colfax Co. Republican 
Committee of New Mexico. Unmarried, Tammany Democrat, 
and a Ritualist. Address, care of The Worlds Park Row, New 
York city. 

Samuel Clark after graduation was with his brother-in-law 
at Quechee, Vt., for a while. In the winter of 1877 he went to 
the Black Hills as a surveyor, and later to Leadville, Colo. ; in 
1879 ^^s ^\\\\ King's U. S. Geological Survey, and in 1880 
book-keeper and assayer of the Adelaide Mining Co., at Lead- 
ville, Colo. He had returned to Quechee in January 188 1, and 
in 1882 worked at farming near Denver, Colo. ; in 1883 he went 
to Glendive, Montana, to engage in stock raising, and this year 
reports himself as still there. Unmarried ; Republican ; no re- 
ligious preference. Address, Glendive, Montana. 

Arthur Prescott French was principal of the Hancock 
(N. H.) High School in the fall of 1879, "^^^ teaching in Ashu- 
elot, Mass., in 188 1-2, and in Marlow Academy, 1882-4. He 
went to Keene, N. H., May 15, 1884, where he was, I under- 
stand, employed in city engineering. He has not reported since 
1885, but I have his receipt, dated in August last, for a register- 
ed letter at Avon, N. Y., the letter having been forwarded there 
from Keene. 

Ray Timothy Gile entered the Thayer School of Civil En- 
gineering in the fall of 1877, and graduated in June 1879. In 
the fall of 1879 he was superintendent of a mine in Grafton, N. 
H. ; in the spring of 1880 telephone agent at Littleton, N. H., 
and from Apr. ist, 1880, to Apr. ist, 1881, agent for the Ports- 
mouth (N. H.) Bell Telephone Co., since which time he has been 
located at Littleton, -N. H., as civil engineer and surveyor, be- 
ing employed in the location and construction of the Littleton 



OF DAR TMO UTH '77. 53 

Water Works, surveying in Bethlehem in connection with the 
suit of " The N. H. Land Co. vs. Henry S. Tilton et al.,^' and 
other hke works. Was Secretary of the Littleton Fire District 
from March ist, 1885, to March ist, 1886. Married, October 
23, 1879, ^t North Haverhill, N. H., to Miss Hattie Ellen, 
daughter of J. Titus. He is a Republican and a member of the 
Methodist church, of which he is steward, and recording secre- 
tary and treasurer of the Sunday-School. Address, Littleton, 
N. H. 

Christopher Marsh Goddard after graduation accepted 
position as Instructor in the Higher Mathematics, Chemistry, 
and Political Science in the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut 
at Cheshire, Conn., where he also had charge of the Military De- 
partment as Commandant, remaining three years, when he re- 
moved to Brooklyn, N.^ Y., and was for a short time in the Aud- 
itor's office of the N. Y., Woodhaven & Rockaway R. R., at 
Rockaway Beach. In January 188 1 entered the employ of 
Hatch & Foote, bankers, at 12 Wall St., remaining there till 
their failure in May 1884; was then with Chas. Head & Co. in 
the same business, and later with the Phoenix Mutual Life Ins. 
Co. till June 1886, when he accepted the position of Managing 
Director of the Plainfield District Telegraph and Fire Alarm 
Co., at Plainfield, N, J., where he had been living since Febru- 
ary 1882, which position he still holds. Married, February 14, 
1882, to Emilie Georgette, daughter of the late George Brand- 
ner of Brooklyn, N. Y. Has been member of the county and 
city Republican Executive Committees. Member of City Coun- 
cil, 1885 to 1887. Is a Mason, bein^^^W. of Lodge, P. H. P. 
of Chapter, and member of Commandery. In politics he is 
what may be termed a Blainite just now, but always a Republican. 
Is member of the Crescent Ave. Presby' jrian church. Address, 
Plainfield, N. J. 

Charles Howard Holmes has been with his father in the 
undertaking business ever since graduation, but his reports are 
so brief and far between that I am only able to say he was mar- 
ried March 7, 1882, and had one child, a boy. Address, Sara- 
toga Springs, N. Y. 



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John Jacob Hopper taught in New York city schools 
from graduation till August 1884, at which time he vice-princi- 
pal. He then entered the Thayer School of Civil Engineering, 
Dartmouth College, which he graduated in 1885, when he re- 
turned to New York city and acted as Assistant Engineer in 
the Department of Parks for a while. He then went into con- 
tracting business, in which he is still engaged. Married, Au- 
gust 1879 5 -^^is wife lived but two months. He does not report 
his politics, but was formerly a Democrat. Address, 163 West 
1 2 2d St., New York city. 

George Isaac McAllister began the study of law with 
Cross & Burnham, October ist, 1877, at Manchester, N. H., al- 
so with the Hon. David Cross (D. C. '41), and was admitted to 
the bar in March 1881. He began the practice of law with Hon. 
H. E. Burnham (D. C. '65) under firm of Burnham & McAllis- 
ter on April I St, 1881, which firm was dissolved January ist, 1884, 
since which time he has practiced alone. He ran unsuccessful- 
ly as the Democratic candidate for County Solicitor in 1884, and 
made several campaign speeches that year. He was appointed 
Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue by Hon. Calvin Page, 
November ist, 1885, which office he still holds. He has taken 
the 32d degree in the Scottish Rite, is W. M. of his Lodge, 
member of Chapter, and S. W. of Trinity Commandery K. T., 
member of the New Hampshire and the Granite State Clubs. 
Married, December 22, 1886, to Mattie M., daughter of the late 
Hon John M. Hayes. He is a Democrat, and attends the Bap- 
tist church. He has made several Memorial Day addresses, 
and delivered the oration at the dedication of the Soldiers' Mon- 
ument in Londonderry, N. H., in October 1884. Address, 6 
Opera House Block, Manchester, N. H. 



Chalmers William Stevens, the son of Walter and Louise 
(Eames) Stevens, was born at Wentworth, N. H., April 4, 1S52, 
from which place his parents moved to Claremont in the same 
state, where he fitted in the Stevens High School to enter the 
Sophomore Class in the Chandler Scientific School of Dart- 
mouth College. After graduation he entered the Thayer School 



OF DARTMOUTH 'T]. 55 

of Civil Engineering in the class of '79. On March 8, 1879, he 
sailed from New York city for Cordoba, Argentine Republic, 
via Liverpool, to accept a position in the national observatory 
located there, where he was assistant to Dr. B. A. Gould. While 
there he gave promise of making his mark as an astronomer, 
but his career was cut short. On February i6th, 1884, he was 
instantly killed by a stroke of lightning, while sitting at the 
breakfast table. He was buried at Cordoba. His is the first 
and only death among the thirty-four who have been connected 
with our class in the fourteen years since we entered college. 



William Henry VanVliet after graduation was with 
Walter McEwan, wholesale dealer in teas, coffees, spices, etc., 
for two years, since which he has spent his time in traveling 
about and at Castleton, N. Y., where he is now engaged under 
the firm name of Budd & VanVliet as pressers of and whole- 
sale dealers in hay, coal, feed, etc. ; they also do a general 
freighting and forwarding business by the Barge '" Ulster Co." 
Member of Masonic Lodge, Chapter, and Commandery. Mar- 
ried, February 9th, 1887, to Miss Hattie M.. daughter of Samu- 
el L. Irish of Maiden Bridge, N. Y. He was School Collector 
and Assistant Town Collector in 1885, is a Mugwump, and 
member of the Second Presbyterian church of Albany, N. Y. 
Address, Castleton, N. Y. 



NON-GRADUATES. 



James Aiken left college end of freshman year and was 
employed in his father's machine works at Franklin Falls till the 
spring of 1880, when he went to Kansas, farming ; in fall of 
1882 went to Denver, Colo., and in the spring he accepted a po- 
sition with Sargent & Co. in New Haven, Conn., with whom he 
remained till the fall of 1885, when he bought a farm in Bridge- 
water, N. H., where he now makes his home. Married, May 
20th, 1880, in New Haven, Conn., to Miss Myra V., daughter of 



56 DECENNIAL RECORD 

Nathan W. Cole ; has one child, Bertha, born in New Haven^ 
Oct. 24, 1883. He is a Republican. P. O. address, Ashland, 
N. H. ' 

Wilbur Cyrus Aldrich left college junior year, and has 
since devoted himself to the study of law, with Jos. F. Randolph 
at 120 Broadway, and Hon. Edward Jordan at 234 Broadway, 
New York city, also to course at Columbia Law School. Ran 
unsuccessfully as candidate for Board of Education in Jersey 
City in 1884. Married, August 26th, 1884, to Miss Kate Doty, 
daughter of P. I. Doty of New York city; they have no chil- 
dren. He reports himself as being a Democrat and an Agnos- 
tic. Residence, No. 112 East 113th St. Office, No. 120 Broad- 
way, New York city. 

Isaac Byron Bounds left college in June 1876 and return- 
ed to his home at Newark, Ohio, where he entered the drug 
business in January 1878 ; sold out in September 1879 and went 
to Philadelphia, but returned to Newark in June 1881, where he 
remained till December 1882, when he again returned to Phila- 
delphia to accept a position in the Freight Department of the 
Penn. R. R. Co., which position he still retains. Married, Oc- 
tober 9th, 1878, in Philadelphia, to Miss Carrie Stewart Fine, 
daughter of Jacob Young Fine ; they have one child, William 
Fine, born July 13th, 1879. He is a member of the Royal Arc- 
anum, a Republican in politics, and attends the Presbyterian 
church. Residence, No. 512 South 41st St. Office, Empire 
Line, No. 8 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Penn. 

Henry George Chandler left college junior year, to take 
a position surveying on the Concord R. R., and since that time 
has been engaged in various pursuits, but mostly with W. P. 
Ford & Co. of Concord, N. H., where he now occupies the po- 
sition of foreman of the Range and Coal Stove Department. 
He is also connected with A. A. Winkley in the manufacture of 
artificial legs. Married (i), June 24th, 1885, to Miss Sarah M. Ab- 
bott of Concord, who died March 6th, 1886 ; (2), November 14th, 
1886, to Lizzie B. Ferguson of Concord, N. H. Address, 108 
South St., Concord, N. H. 



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Addison Gardner Cook left college at end of sophomore 
year, and has since that time been in the building material bus- 
iness at Laconia, N. H. ; is interested with his father, and 
also in milling business for himself. Married, October ist, 1880, 
to Kate H., daughter of Frederick W. Hathaway of Brockton, 
Mass. ; has had three children, Willie, born May 1883, and Ar- 
thur and Louise, born May 1885, of whom Louise has smce 
died. He is an Odd Fellow, and votes the Republican ticket 
Member of the Unitarian church. Address, Laconia, N. H. 

William Jacob Davis left college end of sophomore year, 
and remained at his home in Bethel, Vermont, owing to poor 
health until April 1882, when he went to Concord, N. H., as 
draughtsman for the Continental Construction Co. ; in October 
of the same year went to work as a machinist for Forsyth & Co. 
of Manchester, N. H., where he remained until called home by 
his father's sickness in May 1883. In October 1883 he accepted a 
position in machine shop of Shortsleeves & Co. of Rutland, Vt., 
but in June 1886 was again called home by sickness of his fa- 
ther, where he has since remained, carrying on the farm. Mar- 
ried, October 17th, 1877, to Miss Mode, daughter of David W. 
Cowdery of South Royalton, Vt. ; they have one child, Kathrina 
Mode, born August 28th, 1878. He says: "I am a Republi- 
can, dyed in the wool, and a yard wide, warranted to neither rip 
nor run down at the heel." He is a member of Christ's (Epis- 
copal) church, of which he is one of the vestry, junior warden 
and treasurer. Address, Bethel, Vt. 

Frank Henry Fisk left college in the fall of 1875 on ac- 
count of sickness and " went West," to Elgin, Ills., where he was 
appointed Deputy City Engineer ; at the same time commenced 
the study of law ; the next year he secured a position on the 
Topographical Survey of Montana. He then studied law and 
did some railroad surveying till the spring of 1878, when he took 
charge of a graded school at Glenville, Minn., where he remain- 
ed three years ; afterwards was teaching in New Richland and 
Le Roy, Minn., and now has charge of the schools in Forest 
City, Iowa. Married in fall of 1880 to Miss Mary, daughter of 
Henry Thurston of Glenville, Minn. He is, I think, a Repub- 



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lican, as he stumped the county for James G. Blaine, and says 
he is "ready to do it again." He is not a church member. Ad- 
dress, Forest City, Winnebago Co., Iowa. 

Edward S Franklin left college 1875 ^'^^ returned to 
Newark, Ohio, where he was engaged in stock raising. In 1880 
he entered into partnership with his brother in queensware bus- 
iness, under firm name of Franklin Bros. ; sold out in 1882, and 
entered the employ of James Cregan & Co., and is now in the 
employ of M. Q. Baker & Co., dry goods and carpets. Mar- 
ried, October 4th, 1876, to Miss Florence O., daughter of Judge 
Geo. M. Grasser, and reports two children. Ruby, born Feb'y 
23rd, 1882, and Harold G., born June 13th, 1886. He is a 
member of Ahiman Lodge of Newark, O., and Manhattan Com- 
mandery of New York city ; also of the Royal Arcanum. He 
is a Democrat and Episcopalian. Address, Newark, Ohio. 

John Heeley Franklin left college in December 1875, 
and accepted the position of teller in the Franklin Bank at New- 
ark, Ohio, where he remained for two years ; after that engaged 
in stock raising, and then in the queensware business with his 
brother ; in 1882 he entered the employ of McCune & Co., as 
their book-keeper, where he stayed for two years, when he was 
elected cashier of the People's National Bank of Newark, Ohio, 
which position he still holds. He ran unsuccessfully in the 
spring of 1887 as the Republican candidate for township treas- 
urer, the township having 1300 Democratic majority. Married, 
August 2nd, 1877, to Miss Helen A., daughter of Henry Sprague 
of Newark, Ohio, and has four children, John Henry, born May 
4th, 1879, Lillian Helena, March 8th, 188 1, Paul, October nth, 
1883, and Robert Rex, November 8th, 1885. He is a Republi- 
can, and a member of the Episcopal church. Address, care of 
People's National Bank, Newark, Ohio. 

Edmund Bailey Frye left the class in January 1875, when 
he began the study of medicine in Hanover ; in October same 
year he went to Los Angeles, Cal., remaining there till Februa- 
ry 1877, when he returned to Hanover to study with C. P. 
Frost, M. D., and entered Dartmouth Medical College, gradu- 



OF DAR TMO UTH '77. 59 

ating November nth, 1879. He began the practice of medi- 
cine in Boston, Mass., and in May 1881 removed to Plaistow, 
N. H., where he continued to practice till November 1885, when 
he again returned to Boston, where he now is. Married, Feb- 
ruary 4th, 1880, to Miss Alice E., daughter of Alfred A. Whit- 
ney of Boston, and has two children, Mary Alice, born June 
22nd, 188 1, and Elizabeth Harriet, born June 5th, 1883. Mem- 
ber of the N. H. Medical Society and a Mason. He is natural- 
ly a Democrat but of late a Mugwump, and he attends the Uni- 
tarian church. Address, 89 Blue Hill Ave., Roxbury, Mass. 

Seth Newton Gage left college at end of sophomore year 
and taught that winter in Pelham, N. H. ; he then entered the 
class of '79, c. s. D., with whom he graduated, after which he 
taught in Amherst, N. H., and in the spring of 1880, he obtain- 
ed a position on the engineering corps of the Cincinnati South- 
ern R. R. ; in March 1881, he entered the employ of the Mexi- 
can National Railway, with whom he filled several important en- 
gineering positions. In the spring of 1884 he went to Fort 
Davis, Texas, and in that fall he accepted the position of secre- 
tary and treasurer of the Presidio Live Stock Co., which posi- 
tion he still retains. Married, January 13th, 1886, to Miss Cora 
C, daughter of John J. Henderson of North Cambridge, Mass. 
He is a Republican, and attends the Congregational church. 
Address, Fort Davis, Texas. 

Edward Goss Humphrey after leaving college returned 
to St. Johnsbury ; in 1877 he was news agent at that place; he 
was book-keeper in the Flouring Mills of A. H. McLeod, and 
then with F. F. Fletcher, stoves and hardware; in 1881 he was 
in the general freight office of the St. Johnsbury & Lake Cham- 
plain R. R., where he remained till April ist, 1885, when he se- 
cured a position in the Auditor's office of the Boston & Lowell 
R. R., at Boston. He has not reported since, but I am inform- 
ed he has returned to St. Johnsbury. Married, May i6th, 1877, 
to Miss Almeda D. Hunter, of St. Johnsbury. Address, St. 
Johnsbury, Vt. 

Horace P. Kent left college in 1875, and in the summer 
of 1876 was conductor for the Pullman Palace Car Co. between 



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Boston and Montreal, after which he was engaged for a short 
time in the Railway Mail Service, and in November 1877 ^^ 
was appointed to the Naval Office in the U. S. Custom House 
at Boston, Mass., where he remained until April 1887, when 
the reform in the Civil Service under the present administration 
rendered it necessary for him to vacate, since which time he 
has been rusticating in Portsmouth, N. H. He is a member of 
Lodge, Chapter, and Commarfdery of Portsmouth, also of the 
Sons of Veterans, and in the latter has held the office of Com- 
mander of the First Grand Division, comprising the New Eng- 
land States. Married, October 19th, 1880, to Miss Nellie E., 
daughter of Frank P. Ackerman of Portsmouth, N. H. He is a 
Republican and a member of the Episcopal church. Address, 
Box 721, Portsmouth, N. H. 

William Woodford King left college in January 1874, 
went to W. Va. till September 1874, when he went to New York 
city, remaining till April 1875, since which time he has been 
engaged in railroading, first on the Geneva, Hornellsville &: Pine 
Creek R. R., then with the Canada So. Fast Freight Line at 
Louisville, Ky., and in December 1877 with the N. Y. Elevated 
R. R. till February 1880, when he took charge of the construc- 
tion of the Norfolk Southern at Elizabeth City, N. C, and was 
appointed train-master of same road in December i88i. In 
January 1883 was appointed sunerintendent of construction on 
the Williamsport & Clearfield R. R. in Penn., and in January 
1884 surveyed line for the Iron Belt R. R. in Virginia. In Oc- 
tober 1884 accepted position as superintendent of construction 
on the Ohio River and Lake Erie R. R., which position he re- 
signed in February 1885 to accept the position of train-master 
of the Norfolk Southern R. R., where he still remains. He is 
not married, never votes, and has no religious preferences. P. 
O. address, Berkley, Va. 

William Morrill Leavitt left college at end of freshman 
year, and began reporting for the Cambridge (Mass.) Chronicle^ 
but the east winds of Boston beginning to affect his health he 
moved to Providence, R. I., and became compositor for the 
Journal of that city, where he remained until about two years 



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ago, when his eyesight and general health became so much im- 
paired that he was obliged to give up regular work. While con- 
nected with thQ Journal \ie made two balloon ascensions on the 
occasion of the 250th anniversary of the city of Providence. 
Married, September 15th, 1879, to Miss Ella L., daughter of 
Thomas M. Himes of Natick, Mass. ; his wife died of typhoid 
fever, November 26th, 1882. Address, Providence, R. I. 

Fred Leon Parker left college at the end of freshman 
year, and has since been engaged in the drug business in Mer- 
rimac, Mass. He was married in 1878 and has no children. 
He has recently built himself a home, from which and other re- 
ports I judge he is being well prospered in his business. Ad- 
dress, Merrimac, Mass. 

Sylvian Marcello Ramsdell left college in 1876 and en- 
tered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; in 1879 he 
was in the office of the City Engineer of Lynn ; left there and 
went to St. Louis, Mo., where he entered the employ of Frank 
H. Pond, mechanical engineer; in June 1881 he accepted the 
position of engineer in charge of construction Forest Park & 
Central R. R., and in October same year took charge of a divi- 
sion of the St. Louis & San Francisco R. R. He remained 
with this road until ^fay 1887, when he was appointed Assistant 
Chief Engineer of the St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas R. R., where 
he is now in charge of construction of about 150 miles of new 
road. Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. 
Address, Greenville, Texas. 

Fred Batcheller Scri.bner left college during senior 
year, and studied medicine, first at Hanover and afterwards at 
the University of the City of New York. In 1880 he was sec- 
ond assistant physican at the New York City Lunatic Asylum 
on Blackwell's Island, and afterwards first assistant. In Janu- 
ary 1882 he took the position of surgeon on the S. S. British Em- 
pire, which he held for a short time, then going to the Milwaukee 
Asylum for the Insane, where in Nov. 1884 he was appointed 
Superintendent of the Asylum, which position he resigned and 
began practice in Milwaukee, where he now holds the office of 



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City Physician. He reports his business as being largely con- 
nected with the courts as an expert in insanity and nervous- 
troubles in criminal cases. He is a Mason, Knight of Pythias, 
and a member of the Patriarchal Circle, and a Democrat in poli- 
tics. Address, 162 Wisconsin Street, Milwaukee, Wis. 

Robert Rand Smith left college in June 1875 ^^<i entered 
the employ of the Chicago Sheffield Steel Works at Chicago, 
Ills., as salesman and collector. In May 1876 engaged in the 
merchandising and mining business as the Co. of Geo. S. Smith 
& Co. at Lake City, Colorado ; from April 1882 to November 
1884 travelled for the Pecock Shoe Mfg. Co. of Rochester and 
Hunt & Holbrook of Hartford, Conn., with headquarters at 
Denver. In November 1884 accepted the position of book- 
keeper in the Bank of Renwick, at Renwick, Iowa, and was in 
January 1887 appointed cashier and general manager of same 
bank ; is also agent for the Chicago & North West Town Lot 
Co. Member City Council, Lake City, Colo., from 1880 to 1882. 
He is unmarried, a Republican, and member of Episcopal 
church. Address, Renwick, Iowa. 

Russell Allen Wentworth left college before gradua- 
tion, but returned and entered the class of '79 in the fall of 1877, 
with whom he graduated. He then was with the engineer corps 
of the Buffalo Div. of the N. Y., L. E. & W. R. R. for a year, 
and then for fifteen months in the gold fields of the Black Hills. 
In October 1881 he returned to the Erie R. R., in whose em- 
ploy he remained till December 1883, when he secured his pres- 
ent position as engineer of the Dagus Mines. In 1884 he made 
a complete topographical map of the Dagus Mines, which was 
published with the Report of the Second Geological Survey of 
Cameron, Elk, and Forest Counties, Penn. Married, • March 
13th, 1884, to Miss Lizzie A., daughter of the Hon. John Tubbs 
of Osceola, Penn. ; he has one child, Edward Tubbs, born De- 
cember 24th, 1884. His wife died July 26th, 1885. He is a 
member of the Knights and Ladies of Honor, a Republican, and 
a member of the Congregational church of Salmon Falls, N. H. 
Address, Dagus Mines, Elk Co.; Penn. 



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Frederick William White left college in November 1873, 
and entered the High School in Burlington, Vermont ; in spring 
of 1874 entered the dry goods store of Lyman & Allen, and in 
August 1876 accepted a position with the Burlington Woolen 
Co., at Winooski, Vermont, remaining with them till 1883, when 
he was paymaster and senior in the office. In September 1883 
he accepted the position of book-keeper and financial manager 
for Gibson, Miller & Richardson, printers, binders and litho- 
graphers at Omaha, Nebraska, which position he still holds. 
Married, March 22nd, 1882, to Miss Josie, daughter of Samuel 
Schofield of Winooski, Vt. ; they have had two children, Vernon 
Schofield, born June i6'th, 1883, and Mary Annette, born July 
31st, 1886, died October 26th, 1886. He is a member of the C, 
L. S. C, and of a Masonic Lodge, Chapter, and Council, in 
which he has held various offices, and has taken the 14th degree 
of the Scottish Rite. He is a Republican, a member of the 
Seward M. E. church of Omaha, has held the office of recording 
steward, is now one of the trustees, and has also been class 
leader, chorister, librarian, etc., of the same church. Address, 
2902 Yates St., Omaha, Nebraska. 

Charles Seward Wilcox left college in January 1875, 
and was a clerk in Cleveland, Ohio, for a while ; then in Sep- 
tember 1876 he entered the Sheffield School, Yale College, and 
graduated in class of 1879; in July same year he entered the 
employ of the Ontario Rolling Mill Co. of Hamilton, Ont., in 
which company he now holds the position of second vice-presi- 
dent and treasurer. He attends the church of England. Ad 
dress, Hamilton, Ontario. 



RECORD OF CLASS REUNIONS. 



TRIENNIAL REUNION, 1880. 

Fifteen men assembled for a formal business meeting at 
the Senior Recitation Room, in Dartmouth Hall, at 6:45 p. m., 
Wednesday, June 23. Those present were Campbell, Carpen- 



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ter, Comstock, Goddard, Howe, W. H. Ray, Robinson, Saun- 
derson, J. H. Smith, Temple, Thombs, Tillotson, A. Wallace, C. 
A. Willard, W. J. Willard. Tillotson presided, being the last 
chosen Vice-President. Brown had been in town early in the 
week, but left before the meeting. The class cup was on exhi- 
bition, having been procured in Boston by Temple, and after 
the meeting was forwarded by express to the recipient. Master 
Nelson Pierce Brown. 

It was voted, that annual reports be printed for the next 
five years, and also a report in 1887. A balance in the treasu- 
ry of about $50 was reported, and a tax of one dollar was levied 
for the expense of future reports. The next reunion was voted 
to be held on Wednesday of commencement week in 1887, and 
Robinson, Comstock, and Carpenter were appointed by the 
chair as a committee of arrangements. 

The meeting was adjourned to 8 o'clock on Thursday morn- 
ing. At that time the resignation of VanVliet as Scientific Sec- 
retary was received and accepted, and Goddard was appointed 
to fill the vacancy. The roll of the class was called, and infor- 
mation concerning the absent was supplied as far as possible. 



There was no formal class meeting from 1880 to 1887, but 
the number of '77 men present at the commencements of 1883 
and 1885 deserves mention here. In 1883, Brown, Carpenter, 
Carrigan, Cooper, Farnsworth, Robinson, and Tillotson were in 
Hanover; and in 1885, Brown, Campbell, Carpenter, Carrigan, 
Comstock, Farnsworth, Hammond, Leslie, H. L. Moore, and 
Robinson. 

DECENNIAL REUNION, 1887. 

Primus Moore was first on the ground, arriving the week 
before commencement with wife and two children. Cooper was 
the next to appear. Both were rewarded for their promptness, 
Moore acting as marshal on commencement day, and Cooper as 
one of the judges at prize speaking. Each train on Tuesday 
and Wednesday brought some of the class. Goddard and Pri- 
mus Chase came with their wives. Changes of personal appear- 
ance in some cases were so striking and unexpected that laugh- 



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able failures to recognize each other were not uncommon. We 
missed some whom we had expected to see, but all went away 
thoroughly glad they came. At 9 o'clock on Wednesday even- 
ing we sat down to the supper at Conant Hall. Moore, as toast- 
master, presided through most of the evening. Grace was said 
by Sewall. We were arranged at the tables in the following 
order, beginning at Moore and going toward. the right : Moore, 
Sewall, Campbell, I. A. Chase, Patten, Thombs, Deane, God- 
dard, McAllister, Montgomery, Carrigan, Noxon, Temple, Brown, 
Owen, J. H. Smith, Cooper, Saunderson, Cook, W. J. Willard, 
C. A. Willard, Merriam, Carpenter, Comstock, — twenty-four in 
all. 

During the evening the following telegram was read : 
" New York, N. Y. To Philip Carpenter, Conant Hall. — 
The orator and poet of '77 have just drunk the health of their 
classmates at Delmonico's, and send most cordial greetings to 

you all. 

(Signed) 

William G. Davis and Lewis Rosenthal." 

After the discussion of the edibles, Noxon and Carpenter 
read what purported to be a history of the class for the ten 
years, and Owen read a poem, after which the toast-master call- 
ed upon Cooper, C. A. Willard, Goddard, Brown, Montgomery, 
Carrigan, and Smith. We finally adjourned at about one 
o'clock. 

The following business was transacted during the evening. 
A balance of about $30 was reported in the treasury, and a 
tax of $1.50 was raised, to cover the expense of this Decennial 
Record, and of such other printing as should be done before 
the next reunion. The Secretaries were directed to print annu- 
ally a directory similar to the one sent out last [anuary, and 
more extended reports at their discretion. Reunions were ap- 
pointed at Hanover for the commencements of 1892 and 1897, 
and Brown, Carrigan, and McAllister were appointed a commit- 
tee of arrangements for 1892, Comstock to act with them as 
Secretary. The committee were also empowered to call and 
arrange for a reunion in Boston at any time they may think fit. 

JOHN M. COMSTOCK, Secretary, 



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